Appeal No. 2004-0587
Application 09/054,304
destination address of the client to the network for delivery to
the client. The process terminates upon delivery of all required
packets at block 650. See page 14 of Appellants’ specification.
Independent claim 1 is representative of Appellants’ claimed
invention, and is reproduced at follows:
1. A method of managing a client request in a client-server
network having a client, a first server, and a second server, the
method comprising:
performing a handshake between the client and the first
server;
determining whether to fulfill the client request by the
first server;
selecting the second server, when the client request cannot
be fulfilled by the first server;
performing a handshake between the first server and the
second server;
forwarding the client request to the second server for
execution, the forwarding being transparent to the client; and
responding to the client by a one-way direct data
transmission from the second server to the client.
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