The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 Paul E. Luse, Dieter E. Massa, and Norbert Lewalski-Brechter
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Appeal No. 2006-0721
Application No. 10/113,458
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRY, and MacDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
A patent examiner rejected claims 1-30. The appellants appeal therefrom under
35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal concerns "device resource allocation." (Spec.,
p. 1, l. 4.) In a modular redundant array of independent or inexpensive disks on a
motherboard ("MROMB"), MROMB circuitry on a circuit card is used to configure and
control an input/output ("I/O") controller independently of a host processor. More
specifically, the circuitry allocates predetermined addresses to the I/O controller.
Depending upon the addresses that the host processor allocates to other devices,
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