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                      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                               for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                               
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                 
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                      
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                                            Ex parte HIMANSHU S. SINHA                                                 
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                                                 Appeal No. 2006-0509                                                  
                                              Application No. 09/425,088                                               
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                                                       ON BRIEF                                                        
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              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 is                           







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