Appeal No. 2006-0998
Application No. 10/076,729
After a review of Davis, we agree with Appellants’ assertion
that the claimed managing configuration of the operating system
of the network clients is different from installing a software
update. Davis in col. 2, lines 15-21 states:
The system described herein provides for automatically
installing software on heterogeneous client computer
systems. In a distributed system having heterogeneous
computer systems of different natural languages, different
operating system types, or different processor types, the
system described herein automatically installs the
appropriate edition of software onto client computers.
Therefore, although the specific type of the operating system on
the network client is taken into consideration during the
software installation, the installed software is matched to the
operating system without any attempt to manage configuration of
the operating system (col. 2, lines 58-64).
The Examiner has in fact pointed to no teachings in Davis to
indicate that any changes to the configuration of the operating
system of the network client is made. We also agree with
Appellants (reply brief, page 3) that such centralized management
for installing software on network clients may consider the
clients’ different operating systems for installing software
updates, but does not manage configuration of the operating
system of the network clients.
-5-
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007