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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                        not binding precedent of the Board                          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. 33                  
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                    
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
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                              Ex parte VERNON K. BOLAND                             
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                                  Appeal No. 2004-2175                              
                             Application 09/086,627                                 
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                             ON BRIEF                                               
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         Before THOMAS, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.           
         THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                                                                   
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner's               
         final rejection of claims 1-5, 7 and 9-16, appellant having                
         canceled claims 6 and 8.                                                   
              Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:                           
              1.  A method of allocating network resources on a computer            
         network, comprising:                                                       
              monitoring at least two nodes on the computer network among           
         at least a first process and a second process for allocation of            
         computer resources on each of the at least two nodes;                      
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