Appeal No. 2001-0966
Application No. 08/852,660
second computer. The first computer utility in turn subsequently
receives the processed request from the second computer.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. In a data processing system having a first application program
resident on a first computer platform, and further having a second
computer platform coupled to the first computer platform, the
improvement comprising:
a. utility call provided in the first application program,
said utility call providing a request;
b. utility means provided in the first computer platform for
receiving said utility call, and for providing the corresponding
request to the second computer platform wherein said utility means
formats the request prior to providing the request to the second
computer platform and wherein the second computer platform provides
a result in response to the request provided by said utility means;
and
c. wherein said utility means receives the result provided
by the second computer platform and wherein said utility means
provides the result into a buffer on the first computer platform
after receiving the result from the second computer platform.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Duxbury et al. (Duxbury) 5,604,896 Feb. 18, 1997
Claims 1, 2, 4, 8-11, 13-21, and 23-30, all of the pending
claims, stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
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