Appeal 2007-0243
Application 09/777,002
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellants have invented a data storage system wherein one or more
storage nodes is selected to serve a data storage request based at least in part
on the particular context associated with each of the storage nodes (Figure 6;
Specification 6, 7, and 21).
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and it reads as
follows:
1. A data storage system comprising:
a plurality of storage nodes, each node existing at a physical location
and having one or more associated contexts including a political context, an
economic context, a geographical context or a network topological context;
interface mechanisms coupled to each storage node for
communicating storage access requests with the storage node; and
data storage management processes that select one or more of the
storage nodes to serve a data storage request based at least in part upon the
particular contexts associated with each of the storage nodes.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
McClain US 5,794,254 Aug. 11, 1998
Carter US 5,987,506 Nov. 16, 1999
The Examiner rejected claims 1 to 7 and 13 to 30 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) based upon the teachings of Carter. The Examiner rejected claim
12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based upon the teachings of Carter and
McClain.
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