The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte PAUL M. BOBER, URESH VAHALIA, AJU JOHN, JEFFREY L. ALEXANDER, and UDAY K. GUPTA __________ Appeal No. 2004-1899 Application No. 09/608,469 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5, 24-28, and 45-49. Claims 6-23, 29-44, and 50-65 have been allowed. The claimed invention relates to the migration of a file system from a source file server to a target file server in a data network while permitting clients to have concurrent read/write access to the file system. In order to transfer the file system from the source file server to the target file server, the target server issues directory and file read requests to the source file server in accordance with a network file accessPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007