Appeal No. 95-2205 Application 07/750,807 Appellant's invention relates to a virtual storage organization concept providing storage space for parallel program execution in pre-allocated partitions of a virtual address storage containing shared areas and private areas in several address spaces. Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows: 1. A computer system comprising: a virtual storage; and means for allocating from said virtual storage (a) a plurality of private storage areas to a respective plurality of programs before or at a start of execution of the respective programs, (b) another storage area which is shared by said pluralilty of programs, one of said programs performing a plurality of jobs, and (c) an additional private storage area to said one program for one of said jobs at a start of said one job subsequent to the start of one program; and means for de-allocating said additional private storage area at an end of said job. The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows: IBM VSE/Advanced Functions, System Management Guide, Version 4, Release 1. Claims 1, 4 through 7, 9, 10, 21 through 24 and 26 through 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by the IBM Guide. 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007