Appeal No. 95-1888
Application 08/011,042
final rejection of claims 1-26, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. An apparatus for controlling the use of a software
module executing on a computer system, said computer system
comprising:
means for granting entitlement for said computer system
to execute said software module, said software module being a
program unit that is discrete and identifiable with respect to
compiling, combining with other units, and loading;
a plurality of independent triggering means in said
software module for triggering entitlement verification;
entitlement verification means, responsive to each of
said plurality of independent triggering means, for verifying
that said computer system has entitlement to execute said
software module; and
means, responsive to said entitlement verification means,
for aborting execution of said software module if said
entitlement verification means determines that said computer
system lacks entitlement to execute said software module.
There are no references relied on by the examiner.
Claims 1-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being
directed to non-statutory subject matter. As variously
expressed by the examiner in the final rejection and
subsequent answers, the examiner considers the claims to be
directed to mathematical algorithms or merely abstract
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