Appeal No. 2002-0695
Application No. 09/132,731
includes a file-system identifier that permits selection of a file system for performing
input and output operations in the source program.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of programming a computer, comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving a series of programming language statements comprising a
source program into a memory of the computer, wherein at least one of
the received statements includes a file-system identifier that permits
selection of a file system for performing input and output operations in the
source program and the file-system identifier is selected from a group
comprising a literal, an environment variable, and a data name; and
(b) compiling the source program into an object program in the memory
of the computer, wherein the object program includes instructions for
performing the input and output operations according to the file-system
identifier that permits the selection of the file system.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Archer et al. (Archer) 4,587,628 May 06, 1986
Coker 5,640,550 Jun. 17, 1997
Cai et al. (Cai) 5,819,276 Oct. 06, 1998
(filed Oct. 06, 1995)
Claims 1-42 stand rejected under obviousness-type double patenting over claims
1-39 of Cai.
Claims 1-9, 15-24 and 30-37 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Coker in view of Archer.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of
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