Appeal No. 95-5040
Application 07/781,422
The examiner also states (Examiner's Answer, page 7): "Appellants claims are of such breadth
that it [sic] encompasses all of the computers in a network (i.e. host, clients, and workstations etc.),
which interfaces with any other segment/device in a network via redundant means." The independent
claims all expressly require that a computer interface to a network through first and second
connecting means, not to just any device in a network, such as the volume group VG. We agree with
the examiner that Bhide is highly relevant because it teaches changing the address of a normally
unused secondary interface to the primary address of a failed server, but Bhide does not anticipate
because it does not teach connecting a computer to a network through two connecting means where
one of the connecting means may substitute for the other.
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