Appeal 2007-1051
Application 10-161428
Appellant’s invention relates to distributing data on a peer to peer
(P2P) network using a bulletin board to maintain a list of requests for data
from various peers in the system. (Specification 3).
Claim 1 is exemplary:
1. A data distribution system comprising:
a bulletin board that receives requests, the bulletin board comprising;
a list storing received requests, the requests being in a
predefined machine readable format and respectively aged, the
aging of requests is a function of demand of an item associated
with respective requests; and
an access layer that regulates access by a plurality of nodes to
the list.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
Teng 4,642,758 Feb. 10, 1987
Traversat US 2002/0184357 A1 Dec. 5, 2002
Claims 1-10, 13-22, 24-34, 36 and 37stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
103(a) for being obvious over Traversat in view of Teng.
Appellant contends that the claimed subject matter is not rendered
obvious by Traversat in combination with Teng for failure of the references
to teach significant limitations of the claims. The Examiner contends that
the claims are properly rejected.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the Examiner, we
make reference to the Briefs and the Answer for their respective details.
Only those arguments actually made by Appellant have been considered in
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