Appeal No. 2000-0430
Application No. 08/742,104
Claim 6 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
6. A computer implemented method for synchronizing
threads in a computer system executing two or more operating
system personalities, said operating system personalities
having at least two different synchronization syntaxes, the
method comprising the steps of:
intercepting each synchronization request from one of
said two or more operating system personalities;
transforming said intercepted request into a generic
synchronization format by applying a transformation in
response to the synchronization syntax of said operating
system personality; and
performing said synchronization operation.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Miyahara 5,504,814 Apr. 2, 1996
Open VMS RTL Parallel Processing (PPL$) Manual, pp. 1-2 and
4-1 through 4-17 (Maynard, MA, Digital Equipment Corp., May
1993)(hereinafter referred to as the Digital Equipment Manual).
Multithreaded Programming Guide, pp. 66-77 (Mountain View, CA,
SunSoft - Sun Microsystems, Inc.)(hereinafter referred to as the
SunSoft Guide).
Claims 1 through 3, 6 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§§ 102(a) and (e) as being anticipated by Miyahara.
Claims 4, 7, 8, 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Miyahara in view of the SunSoft
Guide.
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