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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                              Ex parte ANDREW SCHOFIELD                               
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                                Appeal No. 2001-2269                                  
                             Application No. 08/680,266                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO, and BARRY, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 19-30, all the claims pending in the instant application.            
          Claims 1-18 have been canceled.                                             
                                      Invention                                       
               The invention relates to performing distributed object calls           
          using proxies on the client side and memory allocation on the               
          server side.  Specifically, the invention involves the creation             
          of a proxy handle data structure to be associated with a                    
          particular object and its associated object reference.  On the              







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