Appeal No. 95-2004
Application 07/597,370
appellants’ specification. The examiner has not demonstrated
in Fields a collective servicing of the total event load by
servers from different operational units according to the
availability of servers at the various units.
Fields involves the creation of an optimum staff schedule
for each store location based on the specific requirements of
the location. Note that in column 1, lines 46-52, Fields
states:
Each remote location has unique differences in
layout, sales patterns, sales volume, and product
mix. These differences are further complicated by
the uniqueness of each day of the week and
seasonality of the year. Such variables must be
combined and examined to create a unique optimum
staff schedule for each remote location.
The mere fact that Fields refers to a multi-unit operation
does not satisfy or reasonably suggest the claim feature at
issue.
The appellants correctly assert that the examiner has miscon-
strued Fields (Br. at 7). The appellants’ claimed allocating
step is not found or reasonably suggested by Fields. It has
not been shown that the multiple units of Fields cooperate to
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