Appeal No. 1997-1212
Application 08/017,839
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-12. The amendment after
final rejection submitted with the Appeal Brief (Paper
No. 11), which is said by the Examiner to be a duplicate of
the amendment after final (Paper No. 7), has not been
entered as noted in the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 12,
page 1).
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a
parallelization supporting method. When the
parallelizability of the program is indeterminable, "a
decision of parallelizability is made by use of assist
information inputted by a user from a terminal 4, or made by
actually executing the source program" (specification,
page 7, lines 12-15).
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for supporting parallelization,
comprising the steps of:
receiving data representative of a
predetermined reference condition from an associated
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