Appeal No. 2000-2091
Application 08/441,024
Appellant’s invention is directed to a client/server
system in which clients receive data from a server, process
the data and return the data back to the server. The data
used by a plurality of clients is supervised exclusively by a
server as each client down-loads the data from the server and
returns the processed data to the server (specification, page
12). Appellant’s invention addresses the problem encountered
when the client or the server breaks down. In either
instance, the data is automatically transmitted from the
client to the server when both the client and the server are
operational (specification, pages 13-16). As the data is
transmitted to the server, the client sends a message to the
server indicating that the data supervising information must
be renewed (specification, page 17). Thus, the data generated
by the client before transfer to the server, is saved in case
of break down and then automatically transferred from the
client to the server without any user input (specification,
page 18).
The representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A client/server system comprising:
2
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