Appeal No. 1998-3329 Page 9
Application No. 08/261,518
computer on which execution is to be performed.” (Appeal Br.
at 11.) In Radia, moreover, “during a typical remote
execution from a parent machine to a server in the same
division, /m denotes a parent machine's naming tree, [and] /ml
denotes a server's naming tree ....” P. 76. The appellant-
coauthor further explains, “[a]lthough m and ml are both
symbolic links which specify a computer on which execution is
to be performed, they are not themselves symbolically linked
to a particular computer as required by the language of
present claims 44 and 52. Instead, the links themselves are
changed from one alphanumeric string to the other (m to ml).”
(Appeal Br. at 10.)
The appellant’s explanation is consistent with his
description of the “EPort distributed environment, developed
in part by the [appellant].” (Spec. at 4.) In such an
environment, “[t]he name bindings of some objects, such as the
bindings of objects generic to both the parent and child
computers, are changed to point to the child computer. That
is, the name bindings of these objects are changed so that the
objects may be accessed by the child process directly from the
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