Appeal No. 1996-1715
Application No. 08/068,592
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 6, 7, 39, 43, 44, and 46, which are all of
the claims pending in this application.
The appellant's invention relates to a method of
systematically updating information in a distributed network
data processing system. Claim 39 is illustrative of the
claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
39. A method of systematically updating information in a
distributed network data processing system, said data network
having at least one client node, at least one server node
operating in conjunction with said client node, a plurality of
directories, at least one clearinghouse replica of each of
said directories, each of said clearinghouse replicas residing
on said server node, and a synchronization attribute for each
directory, said synchronization attribute having a
synchronization attribute timestamp, said method comprising
the steps of:
assigning a replica attribute having a replica attribute
timestamp and a replica attribute value to each clearinghouse
replica of each of said directories;
assigning a first directory attribute having a first
directory attribute timestamp and a first directory attribute
value indicative of an existing version of said directory to
each of said directories;
assigning a second directory attribute having a second
directory attribute timestamp and a second directory attribute
value being indicative of an upgraded version of said
directory to each of said directories;
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