Appeal No. 2002-0596
Application No. 08/763,135
Appellant's invention relates to an apparatus and method for demand load
analysis. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method, implemented in an information handling system, for
selecting one or more dynamic link libraries (DLLs), utilized in an
application program, to be demand loaded, said method comprising the
steps of:
identifying a DLL referenced by the application program;
tracing outputs from the DLL;
examining the traced output of the DLL to determine whether the
DLL was executed; and
selecting the DLL to be demand loaded if the DLL was not
executed.
The prior art of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are as follows:
Cobb 5,835,749 Nov. 10, 1998
(filed May 5, 1995)
Johnson et al. (Johnson) 5,878,384 Mar. 02, 1999
(filed Mar. 29, 1996)
Claims 1-3, 5-12, 14-18, and 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Johnson in view of Cobb.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
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