The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board Paper No. 33 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte VERNON K. BOLAND ______________ Appeal No. 2004-2175 Application 09/086,627 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ 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; 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007