Appeal No. 2001-1605
Application 08/735,168
is indicated by a range of a partitioning key. See page 10 of
Appellants’ brief and Appellants’ reply brief.
We find that Bhide is directed to the storage of data
involving physically partitioning the data and distributing the
resulting partitions to responsible or owner nodes in system
which become responsible for transitions involving their own
corresponding partitions. See columns 1 and 2 of Bhide. Bhide
does teach that during the transition period of transferring
logical ownership from one logical owner to another, node will
maintain block locks of physical blocks accessed by transitions
at node and new transitions at node. See column 10, lines 41
through 50, and column 11, lines 50 through 57. However, we fail
to find a teaching of partitioning a table of a database into a
plurality of partitions, receiving a request for access to the
table, determining a partition for containing the data, and
locking the partition in response to the request as recited in
Appellants’ claims. Therefore, we will not sustain the
Examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 5 through 7, 9, 21, 26, 27 and
29 under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
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