Appeal No. 2006-2702 Page 2
Application No. 09/881,234
sending all data elements and task definitions to a master central
processing unit (CPU) of a master-slave distributed computing platform,
wherein task definitions comprise at least one comparison
parameter, at least one executable element capable of performing
comparisons, a query data element identification(ID)/descriptor,
and a subject data element ID/descriptor, and
wherein data elements are sent alternately from query and subject
data elements;
sending a task definition for each task from the master CPU to one of a
plurality of slave CPUs when all parts of a task definition and data
elements referenced by said task definition are available at said master
CPU;
sending data elements referenced by said task definition to said slave
CPU;
performing each task on a slave CPU; and
returning task results for each task to said master CPU.
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Reed et al. (Reed) 5,862,325 Jan. 19, 1999
Smith et al. (Smith), “BCM Search Launcher – An Integrated Interface to
Molecular Biology Data Base Search and Analysis Services Available on the
World Wide Wed,” Genome Methods, Vol. 6, pp. 454-462 (1996)
Altschul et al. (Altschul), “Basic Local Alignment Search Tool,” J. Molec. Biol.,
Vol. 215, No. 3, pp. 403-410 (1990)
GROUNDS OF REJECTION
Claims 1-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as
being indefinite in the recitation of the term “task definition.”
Claims 1, 4, 6-13, and 18-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over the combination of Smith, Altschul, and Reed.
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