Appeal No. 95-3800
Application 08/046,109
An I/O request in Albright is considered to be “foreign” if it
occurs in a program originally written for a second system but
is being run on a first system. Since a program in Albright
is either written for the first system or is not written for
the first system, all the I/O instructions within a given
program would be foreign or not foreign as far as Albright’s
system is concerned. Therefore, if a program written for the
second system is run on Albright’s first system, all the I/O
requests would be treated as “foreign” requests and would lead
to the execution of special I/O code each time such an I/O
instruction is executed. In our view, this operation of
Albright is sufficient to fully meet the invention as recited
in claim 13. The fact that Albright can also execute programs
which are not “foreign” does not alter the fact that once a
“foreign” program is loaded into Albright’s system, the
invention as recited in claim 13 is fully met.
Therefore, we sustain the examiner’s rejection of
claim 13 as anticipated by the disclosure of Albright. Since
appellants have not separately argued any of claims 14-22,
these claims fall with claim 13.
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