Appeal No. 96-1229
Application 08/104,819
indicates only that the called procedure resides in a
different processing node, and Pagé specifically describes
that for the remote procedure call there is no connection or
communication between the client and the server (column 5,
lines 56-59).
Johnson’s general teaching that data on a bus can be read
remotely and Pagé’s teaching of a remote procedure call do not
reasonably suggest putting Pagé’s message queues in different
data processing nodes and having the apparatus or facility for
reading a message queue located in a different processing node
than the particular processing node containing the message
queue. Both of those features are required by applicants’
claim 5. There is also insufficient logical connection
between Johnson’s data bus and Pagé’s message queues.
Furthermore, in Pagé, it is the broker node itself which
contains the pointers to the message queues which are also
contained within the broker node. The examiner has not
articulated a meaningful basis for concluding that applicant’s
claim 5 would have been prima facie obvious over Pagé and
Johnson.
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