Appeal No. 95-2004
Application 07/597,370
lines 13-14), and states (answer at 4, lines 19-22): "Since
this is a multi-unit system or a multi-unit organization, it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art
that each of these location does work in a cooperative
manner." We disagree with the examiner. The multiple units
or stores in Fields do not cooperate with each other to
service an overall event load.
In Field’s disclosure, there is no overall event load.
Each store location has its own unique event load which is
served by
resources specific for that location. The examiner has not
established that any event load is allocated across plural
store locations. In that regard, claim 13 specifically
requires: "allocating the expected event load among the
plurality of management units according to a predetermined
number of servers expected to be available at each management
unit during each interval of the forecast time period." It is
implicit in claim 13 that plural management units would
participate at any one time to respond collectively to the
total event load. That is also consistent with the
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