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          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          was not written for publication and is not binding precedent                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. 18              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte LUDMILA CHERKASOVA                              
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                                Appeal No. 2004-1560                                  
                               Application 09/432,750                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before HAIRSTON, BARRY and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 6           
          and 9.  Claims 4, 5, 7 and 8 have been found to contain allowable           
          subject matter.                                                             
               The disclosed invention relates to a method for operating a            
          server cluster with N server nodes to service a client request              


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