Appeal No. 96-3301
Application 08/176,603
(server) to run a function (for example, print) inside the later
[sic]" (Examiner's Answer, page 3) seems to confuse an interface
between client and server and a user interface which is an
interface between the user and the computer via a display. Since
the examiner has not shown that the server process in Davidson is
located in a user interface environment the rejection of
claims 1-3 and 8-10 must be reversed.
Appellants also argue (Brief, page 6):
Davidson does not teach providing an object that runs or
operates within the same operating system as a user
interface environment, yet runs independently of the user
interface environment, as provided by claim 1. An operating
system is typically not a shared resource between computers.
The examiner's response is (Examiner's Answer, page 5): "All the
objects of an object oriented environment may be located inside
the same operating system and operating [sic] indecently [sic] of
each other." Davidson deals with implementing remote procedure
calls in a distributed computer system. "A remote procedure call
is a mechanism by which a program executing in a process space of
one computer causes a procedure to be executed in a process space
of another computer ('remote computer')." Col. 1, lines 46-49.
While we agree with the examiner that objects may be located
inside the same operating system, Davidson does not appear to
show the client/server objects located within the same operating
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