Appeal No. 1997-3104
Application 08/221,124
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 6, all the claims pending in the
present application.
The invention relates to remote application primary
interface (API) processing methods using network protocols in
a network which includes personal computers and a server. In
particular, Appellant discloses on page 1 of the specification
that an API is a collection of commands which enables a pro-
grammer to obtain services from an application. Appellant
discloses further that networks typically include personal
computers which are connected to a server. The server may
handle tasks, such as electronic mail and electronic faxing
for the network. Personal computers have limited resources
and, as a result, such personal computers are not capable of
executing applications that require large amounts of extended
memory. On page 2 of the specification, Appellant discloses
that it would be desirable to provide a method for networking
personal computers in which memory-intensive tasks are off-
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