Ex Parte GONGWER et al - Page 3




                 Appeal No. 2002-2168                                                                                  Page 3                     
                 Application No. 08/961,743                                                                                                       


                         A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following                                        
                 claim.                                                                                                                           
                                  1. In a multi-session computing system, a system for managing a                                                 
                         session context for a session comprising:                                                                                
                                  a computer program concurrently executable by a plurality of                                                    
                         sessions, the computer program comprising a plurality of modules;                                                        
                                  a plurality of data segments accessible to the computer program for                                             
                         storing session data;                                                                                                    
                                  a database structure relating each session with at least one data                                               
                         segment to provide each session access to the stored session data; and                                                   
                                  a thread manager assigning computing threads to sessions.                                                       


                         Claims 18, 40-42, 49, 54, 60, 65, 71, and 76 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.                                              
                 § 112, ¶ 2, as indefinite.  Claims 1, 3-5, 7, 12, 14-16, 18, 23, 25-27, 29, 40-54, 60-65,                                        
                 71-76, and 82-84 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent                                             
                 No. 5,452,459 ("Drury").  Claims 8-11, 19-22, 30-39, 55-59, 66-70, and 77-81 stand                                               
                 rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Drury and U.S. Patent No. 5,345,588                                                      
                 ("Greenwood").                                                                                                                   


                                                                  OPINION                                                                         
                         Our opinion addresses the rejections in the following order:                                                             
                         •        indefiniteness rejection of claims 18, 40-42, 49, 54, 60, 65, 71, and 76                                        








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