Appeal 2007-1240
Application 09/733,596
3. Each secondary network has at least one secondary server, used to
validate data files submitted by users for compliance with an expected
specification (Specification 5: 3-5). If a data file contains defects, the user is
prompted to correct them and resubmit the file for validation (Specification
9: 10-16). Once a data file is validated successfully, it is “released” by that
secondary server and transmitted to the primary server (Specification 7: 3-6).
4. The data files validated may “include files created by CAD tools in
a design organization” (Specification 3: 32).
5. Appellant asserts that performing data file validation at the
secondary servers prior to transmission of the files to the primary server
saves time and network bandwidth as compared to the previous system, in
which validation was performed at the primary server (Specification 5:
16-25, 7: 20-28).
6. Dole teaches an environment for the cooperative design of
integrated circuits by several teams of designers. Dole teaches remotely
controlled workstations and “computer servers” connected to a primary
design server or a mirrored design server (col. 6, ll. 30-32).
7. Dole’s computerized design process inherently produces data files
containing data that describe the newly created design.
8. Workstations 203 and 209 and compute server 211 are associated
with the mirrored design server.
9. Dole teaches that engineers use the work stations to do their design
work – “access data and information, … provide data and information for
execution, … and to otherwise communicate with the primary design server
regarding the design” (col. 6, 48-52).
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