Ex Parte Luse et al - Page 1





               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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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