Appeal No. 96-1229
Application 08/104,819
conversation; and the use of each participant’s CCB
with a pointer to a head message queue (e.g., fig.
7E and column 24).
But the applicants are correct that in Pagé the CCB
chains and the corresponding message queues are all within the
broker processing node. There is no indication that any
message queue or CCB chain referred to by the examiner is
located within a client or server node. The examiner has made
no reasonable demonstration as to why a conversation control
block CCB containing the head pointer to a message queue and
its corresponding message queue are located in different data
processing nodes as is required by applicants’ claim 6. The
fact that a client’s CCB contains a partner CCB pointer
leading to the CCB for the server on the other side of the
broker which is communicating with the client does not mean
the client’s CCB is located in the client node and the
server’s CCB is located in the server node. It is apparent
that the CCB’s and message queues are tools used by the
interconnecting broker and thus are contained within the
broker data processing node. See Pagé column 19, line 58, to
column 20, line 2, and column 24, lines 22-24. We agree with
the following statement of the applicants (Reply at 2):
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