Appeal No. 1998-3329 Page 3
Application No. 08/261,518
a symbolic link generic to both the local and remote
computers. The symbolic link is not changed when the context
of the local computer is transferred to the remote computer.
Instead, the symbolic link is itself linked to the local or
remote computer by another symbolic link.
Claim 44, which is representative for present purposes,
follows:
44. A method of selectively locally executing a
process on a first computer, or remotely executing
the process on a second computer upon initiation by
the first computer, comprising the steps of:
(a) providing a first context on the first
computer including object name bindings having a
local machine name which is a symbolic link for
specifying a computer on which execution is to be
performed;
(b) providing a second context of object name
bindings on the second computer;
(b) [sic] if the process is to be locally
executed on the first computer, linking the local
machine name to the first computer, and controlling
the first computer to execute the process; and
(c) if the process is to be remotely executed on
the second computer, transferring the first context
from the first computer to the second computer,
adding the second context to the first context,
linking the local machine name to the second
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