Appeal No. 2002-1337
Application No. 09/000-635
storage, thereby promoting a fair distribution of cache resources among the various
client devices serviced by the network device.
Representative independent claim 12 is reproduced as follows:
12. A cache manager for a network device coupled to a plurality of client
devices capable of downloading objects, wherein said cache manager
manages a cache storage containing a plurality of cached objects, each of
which is associated with at least one client device that downloaded it, said
cache manager comprising instructions for determining an amount of
cache resource occupied by cached objects associated with each of a
plurality of client devices, and removing cached objects from the cache
storage to ensure that the amount of cache resource occupied by cached
objects associated with any given client device does not exceed a
predetermined threshold.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Orbits et al. (Orbits) 5,237,673 Aug. 17, 1993
Claims 1, 2 and 4-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102 (b) as anticipated by
Orbits.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of
appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
Under 35 U.S.C. §102 (b), a reference must disclose, explicitly or implicitly, every
limitation of the claimed invention. Glaxo Inc. v. Novopharm Ltd., 52 F.3d 1043, 1047,
34 USPQ2d 1565, 1567 (Fed. Cir.), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 988 (1995).
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