The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte QING GONG and HUIFANG WANG _____________ Appeal No. 2004-0499 Application No. 09/251,789 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-29, which are all of the claims pending in the present application. The disclosed invention relates to the distribution and updating of software to a large number of clients using decentralized peer-to-peer client distribution. A first version of a first software application and a second version of a secondPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007