Appeal No. 2001-0999
Application No. 08/972,220
prior art remote network service management application. Without this
specific knowledge, the prior art remote network service management
application cannot communicate with the newly installed network service
instantiations to obtain status data and to administer them.
As can be appreciated, the need to reprogram the prior art remote
network service management application to integrate new network
services represents a burden for network administrators as well as for
developers of the various network services.
(Daly at column 2, line 20- column 3, line 43.) From the above disclosure of Daly, we
find that Daly neither discusses the (remote) administrative console 18 as performing
any additional functions that a client may perform nor designates the (remote)
administrative console 18 as a client. Daly merely discloses the ability to remotely
manage network services on servers that may be geographically dispersed from a
centrally located administrative console which is advantageous for large networks.
Since the examiner has not shown that Daly teaches that the administrative console is
a client or that it would have been inherent that the administrative console is a client, we
cannot sustain the rejection of independent claim 1.
Additionally, the examiner cites the portion of Daly which teaches at columns 7
and 8 that the invention may be adapted to other platforms and operating systems than
the APPLE™ based system, upon which the examples are set forth, for the teaching
that the invention is not limited to any particular computer platform or network. (See
answer at page 4.) While Daly teaches that the invention may be implemented on
other platforms and operating systems, this is not the same as set forth in the language
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