Appeal No. 1997-1933
Application No. 08/299,715
longer requires the resources, not only when the transaction
is complete." The examiner concludes that Oracle DBA teaches
the release of the lock prior to completion of the
transaction. However, the page referenced by the examiner
states that the lock is released "when certain events occur
and the transaction no longer requires the resource" (emphasis
ours). Further, on page 12-6, 12-11, and 12-16, Oracle DBA
states that all locks "are released when the transaction is
either committed or rolled back." Thus, the "certain events"
appear to be the committing or rolling back of the
transaction. In other words, viewing the disclosure as a
whole, we find that Oracle DBA does not release the locks
before the transaction is complete, but rather releases them
when the transaction is committed or rolled back.
Furthermore, the examiner states (Answer, page 9) that
the portions of Oracle DBA and Oracle SQL relied upon
"demonstrate the current state in the art of software
programming in a data transaction processing environment;
which is the ability to release an exclusive lock while
enabling a transaction and process to continue without
corrupting a shared resource." Besides the fact that the
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