Appeal No. 96-2141
Application 07/965,590
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 to 26, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A user interface for managing text I/O between a user
and a parallel program, comprising:
a user terminal for communicating with a parallel processing
system executing a parallel program, said parallel program
including a plurality of individual tasks which may be executing
in parallel with each other, said user terminal having a display
screen;
an I/O status manager for continuously displaying an array
of text I/O status indicators on said screen, each one of said
tasks corresponding uniquely to a different one of said text I/O
status indicators, each of said text I/O status indicators having
a first designated graphical state for indicating that a
particular task corresponding to said each text I/O status
indicator has text output that has not been displayed yet on said
screen and a second designated graphical state for indicating
that said particular task is requesting text input from said user
terminal; and
a text I/O manager controllable by a user at said terminal
for opening an I/O window in said screen corresponding to any
selected text I/O status indicator, said I/O window displaying
text I/O for the particular task which corresponds to said
selected text I/O status indicator.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Cliff et al. (Cliff) 4,713,656 Dec. 15, 1987
Noguchi et al. (Noguchi) 5,237,653 Aug. 17, 1993
(Filed June 04, 1987)
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