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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 KUNIO MINAGAWA
Appeal No. 2006-1359
Application No. 10/098,417
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of
claims 1, 2, 4, and 7-11.
The disclosed invention pertains to a data management mechanism for converting and
distributing data.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A data management mechanism for managing and converting/distributing data, where
said data management mechanism is incorporated into a network-attached storage system for
implementing centered storage management through a network between the data
management mechanism and at least one system running application programs, and said data
management mechanism is mounted in a file system layer of the network-attached storage
system, said data management mechanism comprising:
• an attribute management unit managing data attributes, including a data conversion
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