The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte SWEE B. LIM, PETER B. KESSLER, SANJAY R. RADIA, and GRAHAM HAMILTON ____________ Appeal No. 2001-1362 Application No. 08/670,684 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judges. HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 7, 23 through 29 and 42 through 44. The disclosed invention relates to a distributed client/server based computing system and method in which a call from client objects to servant objects is routed using a remote method table and a transport layer when the client and the server do not share the same process, and in which aPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007