Appeal No. 96-1229
Application 08/104,819
(filed July 10, 1992)
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 5-10 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Pagé in view of Johnson.
The Invention
The invention is directed to an apparatus and method for
inter - [data processing] node communication, using two
message queues, one in each data processing node. When
sending a message to another node, the sender node puts the
message into the local message queue, and when receiving a
message from another node, the receiving node performs a read
from the message queue in the other node. Claim 6 further
recites a head pointer means in each node, which points to the
head of the message queue in the other node and a tail pointer
means in each node, which points to the tail of the message
queue in the same node.
The applicants have grouped claims 5, 7, 9 and 10
together as one group, and claims 6 and 8 together as another,
for purposes of this appeal. Representative claims 5 and
6 are reproduced below:
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