Appeal No. 2004-0933
Application 09/256,680
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 1-21.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method for finding application
components installed on a computer system for use in an
intelligent backup system associated with the computer system.
The method is described at pages 41-44 of the specification in
connection with Figs. 5G and 5H.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for finding application components
installed on a computer system for use in a backup system
associated with the computer system, comprising:
creating a linked list of application components
installed on the computer system;
tracing back nested directories to find a target
directory for each application component in the linked list;
and
receiving a request to find a selected application from
a calling module.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Pongracz et al. (Pongracz) 6,073,128 June 6, 2000
(filed October 31, 1997)
Claims 1-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Pongracz.
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