Appeal No. 1997-0629
Application No. 08/085,505
after final rejection filed December 13, 1995 was approved for
entry by the Examiner.
The claimed invention relates to a method for permitting
application programs running on a computer to obtain transport
services from a set of transport providers that enable the
programs to communicate on a network coupled to the computer.
More particularly, Appellant indicates at page 4 of the
specification that an application program can dynamically
cause the inclusion of a new transport service provider in the
set of transport providers by registering vectors representing
jump addresses of the function entry points to the transport
service provider.
Claim 2 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
2. A computer-based method for permitting
application programs running on a computer to obtain
transport services from a set of transport service
providers also running on the computer, enabling the
application programs to communicate on a network to
which the computer is coupled, each transport
service provider being configured to respond to
transport service requests which conform to a
prespecified format associated with the transport
service provider, comprising
receiving service requests from an application
program, and
2
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