The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte HIMANSHU S. SINHA ____________ Appeal No. 2006-0509 Application No. 09/425,088 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before HAIRSTON, JERRY SMITH, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges. HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 5 and 7 through 17. The disclosed invention relates to a service level agreement manager disposed between a client computer system and a service provider computer system. The service level agreement manager comprises an admission controller that controls admission of the client computer system to a service implementation at the service provider, a performance measurement module in communication with the admission controller, and a specification module in communication with the admission controller and the performance measurement module. The performance measurement module isPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007