Appeal No. 2003-1873
Application 09/281,420
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates to information retrieval
across a distributed network environment. More particularly, the
invention relates to a data structure, method, system, and
program product for gathering responses in a distributed network
environment. The invention also comprises a technique for
recovering from failure at a node of the distributed network
environment. Appellants’ specification at page 1, lines 4-10.
Claims 24 and 26 are representative of the claimed invention
and are reproduced as follows:
24. A request structure for communicating a query across a
distributed network environment, said request structure
comprising:
a query description comprising said query; and
a merge function code for use by said distributed network
environment in merging responses to said query for return back to
a root node originating said query.
26. The request structure of claim 24, wherein said query
is application specific and wherein said request structure
further comprises a response type, said response type being
dependent upon said application specific query.
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