Appeal No. 2002-2259
Application No. 09/083,959
information to determine the revision numbers of processors that
are compatible with all current processors; and
displaying the revision numbers of the processors that are
determined to be compatible with all current processors on a
compatibility list.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Kinoshita 5,574,899 Nov. 12, 1996
Alpert 5,671,435 Sep. 23, 1997
Hamilton 5,852,722 Dec. 22, 1998
(effectively filed Feb. 29, 1996)
Jay Milne (Milne), “Making your server system scale,” Network
Computing, volume 8, page 140, Mar. 15, 1997.2
Appellants’ admitted prior art, specification, page 2,
lines 1-7.
Claims 1, 4-10, 12-14, 17, 19-21, 23, 24, 26-283 and 30-33
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable
over Appellants’ admitted prior art in view of Milne, Alpert and
Kinoshita.
Claims 15, 16 and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Appellants’ admitted prior art, Milne,
Alpert and Kinoshita in view of Hamilton.
2 The Examiner has provided a downloaded copy of the article which has
pages 1 through 5.
3 Claim 26 appears to have been inadvertently omitted from the
statement of the rejection.
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