Appeal No. 1998-0527
Application No. 08/344,325
grouping data objects stored in the one or more
servers into one or more groups;
periodically broadcasting one or more invalidation
reports from one or more of the servers to one or more of the
remote units, each invalidation report comprising information
related to one or more data objects updated during one or more
most recent broadcast intervals predetermined intervals;
excluding, by the one or more servers, one or more
recently updated objects from a group; and
testing a group validity, when requested by a remote
unit, without object-by-object comparison.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Nelson et al. (Nelson) 5,452,447 Sep. 19, 1995
(filed Dec. 21,
1992)
Hoover et al. (Hoover) 5,560,005 Sep. 24, 1996
(filed Feb. 25,
1994)
Claims 3-6 and 8-11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
103. As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Hoover in
view of Nelson.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for
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