Appeal No. 2006-2541
Application No. 09/832,438
to 37 CFR § 41.50(b), we enter a new grounds of rejection against claims 1,
3 through 15, 17 through 29 and 31 through 42.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a method of maximizing service-level-
agreement profits for servers of a Web server farm. See page 3 of
Appellants’ specification. Claim 1 is representative of the invention and is
reproduced below:
1. A method in a data processing system of allocating resources
of a computing system to hosting of a data network site to thereby
maximize generated profit, comprising:
calculating a total profit for processing requests received by the
computing system for the data network site based on at least one
service level agreement; and
allocating resources of the computing system to maximize the
total profit, wherein calculating a total profit includes, for each request
received by the computing system for the data network site,
determining whether processing of the request generates a revenue or
a penalty, wherein a revenue is generated when an allocation of
resources is such that the request is processed in accordance with the
service level agreement and a penalty is generated when the allocation
of resources is such that the request is not processed in accordance
with the service level agreement, and wherein the total profit is
obtained by subtracting the penalty from the revenue for each request.
THE REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
Smith US 2002/0091854 A1 Jul. 11, 2002
Pappalardo, Denise, “ISPs Continue to Improve Internet Access SLAs”;
Network World, Vol. 18, Iss. 8. (Feb. 19, 2001) p. 25
THE REJECTIONS AT ISSUE
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