Appeal No. 96-2160
Application 07/862,888
periodically selecting a task holding a highest execution priority from among said
selected tasks in the ready-to-run queue;
determining if a task is executing on the processor;
if a task is executing on the processor, comparing the execution priority of the
selected task to the execution priority of the executing task;
responsive to the selected task holding a higher execution priority or to absence of
an executing task, processing the selected task for execution on the processor along said
first expedited scheduling path; and
processing the selected task for execution on the processor along said second
scheduling path responsive to the presence of an executing task holding an execution
priority higher than the selected task.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Deitel, An Introduction to Operating Systems, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.,
pages 784-823, copyright 1990.
Claims 1-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by the
disclosure of Deitel.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the examiner, we make reference
to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
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