Appeal No. 2006-2193
Application 09/751,823
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A system for identifying and binding a process, said system
comprising a network server adapted to receive a payload from a network
client over a network, wherein the payload comprises a request for process
execution associated with a task, and wherein the server is further adapted to
evaluate the payload, create an agent from the payload, and forward the
agent to a network host, unknown to and dissimilar from the network client,
for process execution associated with the agent.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Kraft et al. (Kraft) 6,112,225 Aug. 29, 2000
May 6,421,653 Jul. 16, 2002
(Filed Oct. 12, 1998)
Ellis 6,732,141 May 4, 2004
(Filed Nov. 26, 1997)
Claims 1 through 3 and 5 through 26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103. As evidence of obviousness as to claims 1 through 3, 5 through 12,
17, 25 and 26, the examiner relies upon Kraft in view of May, with the
addition of Ellis as to claims 13 through 16 and 18 through 24.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the examiner,
reference is made to the brief (no reply brief has been filed) for appellant’s
positions, and to the answer for the examiner’s positions.
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