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                                  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                                         for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                                     
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                                        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                                                    
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                                                            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 a                








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