Appeal No. 96-2693
Application No. 08/018,972
allowed. Claim 2 has been canceled.
Appellants' invention relates to a technique for
optimizing performance of a portable software program for use
on different computers. The invention enables a single
version of the software to execute at its optimal speed on
each of the different computers. It can survive hardware
changes and computer system upgrades.
On page 4 of the specification and Figure 1, Appellants
disclose that the portable software queries a computer at 10
for its hardware attributes at run-time. Once the software
knows the hardware attributes of the computer, the software
optimizes at 12 at least a portion of the code of the
software. Once optimized, the code may be executed at 14 by
the computer.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for improving efficiency of execution of a
portable application program by different computers, said
method comprising the steps of:
(a) reading, by the portable application program at
run-time for the portable application program in one of the
different computers, at least one hardware attribute of the
one of the different computers from a hardware attributes
storage area internal to and associated with the one of the
2
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