Appeal No. 96-1539
Application No. 08/128,456
an emulator level interposed between the second system
user level process and a kernel level, the emulator level
including
a plurality of pseudo device drivers, each pseudo
device driver corresponding to a first system
input/output device,
the kernel level, including
a plurality of kernel processes, each kernel process
corresponding to a pseudo device driver, and
a second system hardware platform including,
a plurality of second system input/output devices,
each second system input output device corresponding to a
kernel process, and
each combination of a pseudo device driver, a
corresponding kernel process and a corresponding second system
input/output device executing in a second system process and
emulating the operations of a corresponding first system
input/output task and corresponding input/output device.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Albright et al. 4,727,480 Feb. 23, 1988
(Albright)
Binkley et al. 5,088,033 Feb. 11, 1992
(Binkley)
Blackard et al. 5,301,302 Apr. 5, 1994
(Blackard) (filed Apr. 2, 1991)
Independent claims 1 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 as anticipated by either one of Blackard or Albright.
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