Appeal No. 2004-1463
Application 09/401,221
We do find, however, that the examiner’s basis for
combining the teachings of Leighton with the teachings of Brendel
is not supported on this record. Brendel teaches a web server
system in which the load on the system is balanced when a
plurality of participating servers are used. The load balancer
sends web requests to one of the participating servers which has
the requested web information. Thus, the selected participating
server in Brendel always has the requested information. The
claimed invention requires that the main server send the
requested information to the participating server when the
selected participating server does not have the requested
information. As noted above, since the selected participating
server in Brendel always has the requested information, there is
no reason for the main server to ever perform this function.
Despite this clear fact, however, the examiner proposes to modify
Brendel in the event that the requested information is not
present at the selected participating server. It is based on
this alleged happening that the examiner proposes to modify
Brendel with the teachings of Leighton. The examiner’s concern,
however, that Brendel needs to be modified to accommodate the
possibility that the selected participating server would not have
the requested information lacks merit because this condition
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