Appeal No. 2005-1210
Application No. 09/945,438
the end of claim 1 on appeal. We essentially agree with this
analysis as well.
Although even the abstract of Immon makes clear that his
system manages metadata in a distributed or network computing
environment among a plurality of servers on a single server, this
reference fails to teach the substance of the claimed integrated
management module having the ability to manage at least two of
four identified layers of a database system. It is believed that
the claim as well as the disclosed invention is consistent with
the well known OSI software layering approaches in the art.
There appears to be no indication to us that Immon even addresses
his distributed system from the perspective of prior art software
layers, but only from the perspective of processing and managing
metadata, which is created as a natural byproduct of data
processing as set forth in the initial paragraphs of column 1 of
Immon. Overall, it is clear to us that the artisan would not
have been placed in possession of the subject matter of
independent claim 1 based upon Immon’s teachings and showings.
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