Appeal No. 1997-1933
Application No. 08/299,715
references to an indicator or its relationship to the mutually
exclusive semaphore lock.
In response to appellants' Brief, the examiner argues
(Answer, page 8) that "[t]he claimed functions of semaphores
and indications to save each and every transaction, are
functionally equivalent to SQL savepoints and savepoints
(embedded SQL), at 5-319 and 5-3-120 [sic, 5-320]." The
savepoints on pages 5-319 and 5-320 of Oracle SQL, "identify a
point in a transaction to which you can later roll back."
Further, Oracle DBA (page 1-27) discloses that "[b]y using
savepoints, you can arbitrarily mark your work at any point
within a long transaction." In other words, a savepoint
preserves changes up to the savepoint and then acts as a
marker for where the rollback should stop. However, the
claimed indicators must "mak[e] said operation request
inaccessible to said processes," not save the transaction.
Nowhere does Oracle SQL or Oracle DBA disclose any such
function for savepoints. Therefore, the savepoints are not
functionally equivalent to the claimed indicators.
The examiner further asserts (Answer, page 8) that Oracle
DBA discloses that locks are "released when the transaction no
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