Appeal No. 96-2587
Application No. 08/035,750
Each of independent claims 1 and 36 calls for “loading.”
Claim 1 recites a method “for loading a relocatable file into
a computer system memory” and claim 36 recites a “relocatable
file for loading into a computer system memory.” Hastings’
invention is not directed to loading, as such, but, rather, to
a code expansion wherein additional instructions are inserted
into an existing relocatable object file of a computer
program. Of course, it is true that, even in Hastings, there
must be some loading of the relocatable file into the computer
system memory. However, the “loading” by the instant claimed
invention is quite different. In the instant claimed
invention, a new format for the loader section of a
relocatable object code file is employed. This is brought out
in the claims by the language, “updating the first address
field of n consecutive ones of said information items in
response to said one of said loading instructions, n being
specified in said one of said loading instructions,” in claim
1, and by the language, “including a first loading instruction
which specifies updating of the first address field of n
consecutive ones of said information items, n being specified
in said first loading instruction,” in claim 36.
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