UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte ERIC JOHN BARTLETT, CARLOS FRANCISCO FUENTE, NICHOLAS MICHAEL O’ROURKE, and WILLIAM JAMES SCALES ____________ Appeal 2006-2536 Application 10/611,127 Technology Center 2100 ____________ Decided: October 10, 2007 ____________ Before ANITA PELLMAN GROSS, LANCE LEONARD BARRY, and HOWARD B. BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE A Patent Examiner rejected claims 1-9. The Appellants appeal therefrom under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b). A. INVENTION The invention at issue on appeal detects and preemptively applies measures to ameliorate thrashing in a multi-requester storage system havingPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Next
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