Appeal No. 2006-0796 Page 8
Application No. 09/607,751
From the disclosure of Semret, we find that the reference
does teach the network server to be configured to provide a bid
solicitation from a network host for a process execution
requested by a network client. In Semret, when a seller player
agent 102 decides to accept bids for a specified amount of
bandwidth, resource agent 104 solicits bids from different buyer
player agents. To the extent that the different buyers can be
considered network hosts, this limitation of claim 1 is met.
However, because resource agent 104 receives the bids and
determines the winning buyer or buyers, Semret does not teach a
network server that simulates a process execution. Similarly,
Semret does not teach simulating the process execution by
estimating computing resources required to carry out the
execution process.
We are not persuaded by the examiner’s assertion (answer,
pages 7 and 8) that Semret’s pricing simulations (pages 57-62) of
the article that is attached to the patent application is a
teaching of simulating the process execution. The fact that the
article discloses pricing simulations using Monte-Carlo
simulation, is not a disclosure of simulating a process execution
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