Appeal No. 1997-0760
Application No. 08/003,000
common memory to coordinate work requested by executing
processes with available non-executing processes, [.]2
such that both the multithreaded scheduling means and the
user-side scheduling means utilize the common atomic resource
allocation mechanism to interrogate and modify the one or more
work request queues for each computer program that represents
the number of executable processes that need to be executed
for that computer program.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Parkin 4,073,005 Feb. 07, 1978
Claims 20, 21, 23, and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Parkin.
Claims 22 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Parkin.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 26,
mailed August 8, 1996) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
No. 25, filed May 17, 1996) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
We note an incorrect placement of a period in the claim and have2
replaced it with a comma.
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