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          Appeal No. 08/911,596                                                       
          Application No. 2001-2049                                                   

               “detecting an availability of a resource operable for                  
          storing data values” is said to be taught, by Greiner, at page 1.           
               The selective modification of the availability of a resource           
          is said to be taught, by Greiner, at page 2, as a “corrective               
          action.”                                                                    
               Displaying the availability of the resource is said to be              
          taught, by Greiner, at page 1 as a “graphical representation.”              
               Finally, the examiner contends that a change of state based            
          on threshold is taught, by Greiner, at the second paragraph of              
          page 2.                                                                     

               We disagree.                                                           

               Greiner is an article describing the use of Norton Utilities           
          for Windows 95.  That description includes a “continuous display            
          of critical parameters, like disk space, memory and system                  
          resources” which “warned you if any of them was running low.”               
          The article also describes a “series of graphical representations           
          of any or all 27 parameters, ranging from free space on disk                
          drives to the percentage of CPU capacity in use.”  Moreover, the            
          article describes “alarm thresholds” which can be set and the               
          capability of defining what happens “when the trigger value is              
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