Appeal No. 2006-1778
Application 09/776,364
even different modeled products 100 that may be conveyed along conveyance 110 in
figure 1. The host computer 122 provides accessibility to shared files within the
database 130 through the shared filed directory 127 to the extent recited in the claims
on appeal.
To embellish upon the examiner’s reasoning of combinability, it appears to us
from our study of Gartner and Fitting that the artisan would well appreciate that the
teachings of Fitting obviously would have enhanced the operability of Gartner’s
system to make it usable within a plurality of test system environments. Additionally,
the closing paragraph at column 7, lines 36 through 60 of Fitting teaches the distinct
advantages of the approach followed by Fitting such that when information is placed
in the name of a file and communicated by a test system, the recipient host computer
can readily read the information based upon the name alone without having to perform
a lot of other accessing functions. Furthermore, the showing of the accessibility of file
information by file name in Figure 2 of Gartner and its ability to access an external file
reference based upon the two parameters of the identification of the server as well as
the name of a file obviously would have been complemented and enhanced by the
additional teachings just mentioned in Fitting with the ability to seek the
corresponding information necessarily based upon a product identifier as combined
with or otherwise concatenated with particularly requested data types. The
8
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007