Ex parte PEARCE - Page 7




          Appeal No. 1998-1104                                                        
          Application No. 08/380,985                                                  

               As indicated supra, in the admitted prior art, all of the              
          API functions are performed in the secure environment of the                
          SMM.  Thus, Dayan in combination with Thorson and the admitted              
          prior art does not disclose API functions performed between a               
          SMM and a non-SMM environment.                                              
               In summary, the rejection of claims 1-11 is reversed                   
          because a prima facie case of obviousness has not been made by              
          the examiner.                                                               























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