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Appeal 2009-012273

Application 101635,397

client-server relationship is in fact a distributed computing environment, as

the operation is shared, or distributed, between the client and the server.

As to automation, Microsoft's cleanup wizard starts automatically when

a user responds to, an automatically created, a Low Disk Space prompt when

disk space runs low. FF 04. Thus the cleanup wizard is one that was

"automatically performing said at least one maintenance task in response to

said monitoring step." The claim makes no further limitation regarding the

nature of the automation, so even the automated triggering of the cleanup as

in the cleanup wizard is within the scope of the claim. In any event, as the

Examiner found, it is obvious to automate a known manual operation where

one of ordinary skill knew how to provide such automation.

See Leapfrog

Enterprises Znc. v. Fisher-Price Znc.,

485 F.3d 1157, 1163 (Fed. Cir. 2007).

As to reducing log files, both McAfee and the cleanup wizard compress

files (FF 02 and 06) to reduce file size and log files being text files

invariably exhibit size reduction under such compression. The claim does

not restrict the scope to only log files, so general compression as in McAfee

and the cleanup wizard is within the scope of the claim, as servers invariably

produce log files documenting transaction history.

The remaining claims are argued either by referring to the arguments in

support of claim 1 or by essentially repeating those arguments.

Claims

and 20 rejected under 35 U.S. C.

103(a) as unpatentable over

McAfee, Disk Space, Disk Cleanup, and Backup.

These claims recite automatically saving configurations and

authorizations for instances of applications running on said at least one

server in said distributed computing environment. The Appellant argues that

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