Appeal No. 2004-1560
Application 09/318,722
request (column 4, lines 26 through 32; column 4, lines 18
through 21). In an alternative embodiment (Figure 15), the
server cluster 103 includes a domain name server (DNS) 167.
The DNS 167 is used to map or route requests from the client
requestors 110 through 153 to a specific server in the server
cluster 103. Yu is silent as to any customers hosted on the
server cluster 103. In the absence of such customers in Yu, we
agree with the appellant’s argument (brief, page 7) that Yu fails
to teach “the grouping of customers into groups in which each
customer is identified by a domain name,” and the “measurement of
the computational resources required to service said requests to
each of said customers.” In summary, the anticipation rejection
of claims 1 and 2 is reversed.
The obviousness rejection of claims 6 and 9 is reversed
because the teachings of Martin do not cure the noted shortcoming
in the teachings of Yu.
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