Appeal No. 1997-4061
Application 08/469,498
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 13 through 20, all of the claims pending in the
application. Claims 1 through 12 have been cancelled.
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for
patching a program, where the program is fixed in a read-only
memory. In particular, Appellants' invention is directed to
the problem of patching portions of the program that are
executed nonsequentially in that they may be interrupted by an
interrupt processing routine. Appellants' invention provides
for saving the patching context during the execution of an
interrupt processing routine and for restoring the patching
context at the termination of the execution of the interrup-
tion processing routine.
Independent claim 13 is reproduced as follows:
13. An electronic computing apparatus comprising:
(a) a data bus;
(b) an address bus;
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