Appeal No. 2000-2283
Application No. 08/497,287
storing selected global state information for controlling selected
operations. In operation, the calling program conditions the
global state information to a calling program global state,
performs predetermined calling program processing, and calls the
called program. In response, the called program saves the calling
program global information in the called program’s virtual machine,
and further conditions the global state information to a called
program global state. After performing predetermined called
program processing operations, the called program restores the
saved calling program global state to the global state information
store and returns control to the calling program. According to
Appellants (specification, page 3), this restoration ensures that,
when the calling program is again processed, the global state
information will be proper for the calling program.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. A computer system including:
A. a global machine for providing a respective virtual machine
for each of a calling program and a called program, the global
machine further providing a global state store for storing
selected global state information for controlling selected
operations;
B. the calling program conditioning the global state information
stored in the global state store to a calling program global
state, performing predetermined calling program processing
operations and calling the called program; and
2
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