Appeal No. 2001-2269
Application No. 08/680,266
client side, object calls to the associated object are then made
using the proxy handle, thus allowing multiple calls to the same
object and eliminating the need to perform certain initialization
functions each time the call is made. On the server side, the
server allocates memory in a platform-independent manner. See
pages 2 and 3 of Appellant's specification.
Independent claim 19 is representative of the invention and
is reproduced as follows:
19. A computer-implemented method for performing object calls
from a client to a server, comprising the steps of:
obtaining an object reference, wherein an object reference
uniquely identifies an instance of an object;
using the object reference to create a proxy handle data
structure, wherein the proxy handle data structure comprises
information about the object and calls to the object;
performing an initialization routine through the proxy
handle data structure;
performing multiple calls to the object after a single
performance of the initialization routine;
allocating resources after a call to the object; and
automatically deallocating at least a portion of the
resources after implementation of the call to the object.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Bezviner et al. 5,613,148 Mar. 18, 1997
(Bezviner) (filed Oct. 19, 1995)
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