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                Appeal 2007-1117                                                                             
                Application 09/825,495                                                                       
                said at least two application service provider servers providing said                        
                application services.                                                                        
                      The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on                   
                appeal is:                                                                                   
                Duursma   US 6,643,690 B2   Nov. 4, 2003                                                     
                                                                   (filed Feb. 18, 1999)                     
                      The Examiner rejected claims 1 to 25 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) based                    
                upon the teachings of Duursma.                                                               
                      Appellant contends that Duursma does not describe “the feature of a                    
                service routing server utilizing a predetermined application criteria to                     
                intelligently select one of the at least two application service provider                    
                servers based on the application request received from the computing device,                 
                and intelligently routing the computing device application service request                   
                over the network to the selected application service provider server to                      
                perform the requested application service” (Br. 12).  Appellant also contends                
                that Duursma does not teach “developing a register for said application                      
                service provider, said register qualifying said application servers based on                 
                the parameters of the services provided by the application service providers”                
                (Br. 16).                                                                                    
                      We hereby sustain the rejection of record.                                             
                                                  ISSUES                                                     
                      Does Duursma describe the feature of intelligently selecting an                        
                application service provider server based on a user’s service request, and                   
                intelligently routing the service request to the selected application service                
                provider server to perform the request?                                                      



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