Appeal 2007-0398
Application 10/308,445
1 STATEMENT OF CASE
2 Appellants appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 (2002) from a final rejection
3 of claims 11-13, 16-18, 20-21, 23-24, 27, 29-30, and 36-43. We have
4 jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b) (2002).
5 Appellants invented a client-server protocol method and server for
6 directory access of snapshot file storage systems (Specification 13:11-12).
7 Exemplary independent claim 11 under appeal reads as follows:
8 11. A method of configuring a network file server for access to
9 a group of related snapshot file systems in data storage of the
10 network file server, each of the related snapshot file systems
11 being the state of a production file system at a respective point
12 in time, the network file server having a client-server protocol
13 layer of programming for client access to file system objects in
14 the data storage of the network file server, said method
15 comprising: configuring each of the related snapshot file
16 systems to have a common internal file identifier (fid') and a
17 different respective internal file system identifier (fsid'); and
18 programming the network file server for interchanging the
19 common internal file identifier (fid') with the different
20 respective internal file system identifier (fsid') of each related
21 snapshot file system for access using the client-server protocol
22 layer to said each related snapshot file system.
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24 The Examiner rejected claims 11-13, 16-18, 20-21, 23-24, 27, 29-30,
25 and 36-43 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) (2004).
26 The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
27 appeal is:
28 DeKoning US 5,790,773 Aug. 4, 1998
29 Patel US 6,643,654 Nov. 4, 2003
30 Chen US 2003/0182253 Sep. 25, 2003
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