The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte LUDMILA CHERKASOVA __________ Appeal No. 2004-1560 Application 09/432,750 __________ ON BRIEF __________ 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 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007