Appeal No. 96-1229
Application 08/104,819
There is no suggestion in Pagé that the conversation
control blocks (CCB) and message queues (MQ) would
be held in different processing nodes. On the
contrary, it is clear from Pagé (column 19, last
paragraph - column 20, first paragraph) that the
CCBs and MQs are part of the data maintained by the
"broker" and hence would all be located in the same
node as the broker itself.
See also Pagé’s Figure 6 and column 6, lines 6-14.
In a supplemental answer, the examiner responds by
stating that in Pagé the client head pointer is held in a
different "location" from a message queue to which it points.
But of course the pointer is held in a different physical
location from the message queue to which it points. It cannot
occupy the same physical space as the message queue. What
claim 6 requires, however, is that the message queue and the
head pointer pointing to the message queue be held in
different data processing nodes. In light of the applicants’
specification, a data processing node would be a facility like
the server, client, or broker in the system of Pagé and not
simply a physical memory space.
While it may be true that a pointer can work just as well
whether the message queue it points to is located in the same
or a different processing node, the examiner has articulated
no reasonable motivation, stemming from Pagé, for locating the
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