The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 23 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte JOSEPH E. PROVINO and MARK M. TOWFIGH ____________ Appeal No. 2000-2283 Application No. 08/497,287 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before RUGGIERO, KRASS, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-30, which are all of the claims pending in the present application. The claimed invention relates to a method and system for providing a virtual machine for a plurality of application programs including a calling program and a called program which is called by the calling program. Further included is a global state store forPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007