Appeal No. 2006-3284
Application No. 10/061,871
(CCPA 1970). “Analysis begins with a key legal question-- what
is the invention claimed ?”...Claim interpretation...will
normally control the remainder of the decisional process.”
Panduit Corp. v. Dennison Mfg., 810 F.2d 1561, 1567-68, 1 USPQ2d
1593, 1597 (Fed. Cir. 1987).
We note that representative claim 18 reads in part as
follows:
[G]enerating a server configuration profile image
based on a current configuration of a server.
We note at paragraph 26, lines 5 through 8, Appellant’s
specification states the following:
In step 802, the utility generates a profile in
NVRAM based on the current server configuration. This
step involves creating and saving an image in NVRAM
based on the devices in the server. In other words, the
utility creates a "snapshot" of the current highly
optimized configuration of the server.
Thus, the claim does require generating a server configuration
profile image based on a current configuration server.
With the above discussion in mind, we find that with regard
to representative claim 18, Kamper teaches a method for
configuring a plurality of servers using corresponding
configuration files located on a removable storage device.
Particularly, Kamper teaches searching a plurality of devices
connected to a server in order to determine which of said devices
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