Appeal No. 2006-2702 Page 6
Application No. 09/881,234
division of the BLAST database (subject dataset) which has a size within a
specified range, as stated in instant claims 1 and 13.”
The examiner also finds (id.), Smith teaches the use of
the Internet allowing for communication between remote sites and
to promote a distributed information space by filling out a HTML
form (user input query) on a web page (at a master CPU (central
processing unit)), launching a search at a remote site (slave CPU),
returning results for further processing by the BCM Search
Launcher server (another slave CPU), and presenting results to the
user (from original master CPU) . . . .
According to the examiner (id.), Webopedia online3 defines the “master-slave”
relationship
as “an architecture in which one device (master) controls one or
more other devices (the slaves), the description provided in the
sentence above represents sending information to a master CPU of
a master-slave distributed computing platform (via query input) by
sending data elements referenced by a task definition to said slave
CPU, performing each task (i.e. comparison search and further
processing) on a slave CPU and returning task results for each task
to said master CPU.[”]
In this regard the examiner finds (Answer, bridging sentence, pages 5-6), Smith
teaches the use of “a plurality of servers (slave CPUs) that can return results to
the user’s system (master CPU) with additional links to auxiliary information that
was initiated from a single entry page . . . .” According to the examiner (Answer,
page 6), Smith teaches that one or more query parameter values may be
specified “which represents more than one data element dataset that can be a
query or subject.”
According to the examiner (Answer, bridging paragraph, pages 8-9), Smith
teaches that “sequence analysis services are extremely useful for molecular
3 www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/master_slave.html.
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