Appeal No. 2006-3076 Page 2
Application No. 10/004,948
BACKGROUND
The Appellants’ invention relates to a universal server farm mass custom design tool.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. A method for producing a drawing of components and connections needed
to implement a desired system, the method comprising:
receiving user needs of the desired system, wherein the user needs describe
specified capabilities and performance requirements of the desired system and do not
provide schematic details for the desired system, and wherein the desired system is a
computer network;
automatically determining components and connections needed to implement
a system that satisfies the user needs based on the specified capabilities and
performance requirements of the desired system and application of one or more
system design rules to the specified capabilites [sic] and performance requirements
of the desired system;
generating a drawing program input that provides instructions for producing a
drawing of the system that satisfies the user needs using the determined components
and connections to produce schematic details for the system; and
sending the drawing program input to a drawing program to generate a
graphical output of the schematic details for the system.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
O’Sullivan et al. (O’Sullivan) 2003/0065758 A1 April 3, 2003
(filed Sep. 28, 2001)
Flansburg et al . (Flansburg) 6,393,432 May 21, 2002
(filed Jun. 2, 1999
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