Appeal No. 1998-3383
Application 08/352,662
The only two independent claims, claims 1 and 12 are
reproduced as follows:
1. A method for attaching user defined information to a
process object in a data processing system, the method
comprising the steps of:
invoking a first process;
creating a control block corresponding to the first
process, wherein the control block has system defined process
variables that are assigned values by the operating system;
searching for an undefined process variable field in the
process control block for the first process, after the first
process has been invoked;
if an undefined process variable field is found, defining
a User Defined Process Variable in the undefined process
variable field; and
assigning a value to a User Defined Process Variable in
the control block corresponding to the first process.
12. A data processing system for attaching user defined
information to a process object, the data processing system
comprising:
means for invoking a first process;
means for creating a control block corresponding to the
first process, wherein the control block has system defined
process variables that are assigned by values by the operating
system;
means for searching for an undefined process variable
field in the process control block for the first process,
after the first process has been invoked;
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