Appeal No. 1999-1563
Application 08/509,619
claims 2-31, all the claims pending in the present
application. Claim 1 has been canceled.
The invention relates generally to an object oriented I/O
device interface framework . The mechanism is used to attach2
3 4
a variety of I/O devices to a computer system . The I/O
framework mechanism comprises core functions and extensible
functions . The core functions are designed not to be subject5
to modification by a consumer of said framework mechanism, and
the extensible functions are designed so that they can be
customized and extended by the consumer.6
Independent claim 2 is reproduced as follows:
2. A computer system, said computer system comprising:
a bus;
a central processing unit;
main memory connected to said central processing unit via
2Specification, page 3, lines 8-9.
3Figure 8, devices 878, 880, 882, and 884; specification
page 21, line 1 through page 22, line 20.
4Figure 8, item 800.
5Specification, page 3, lines 10-14.
6Specification, page 7, lines 15-22.
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