The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 41
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte JEFFREY V. MERKEY
Appeal No. 2001-2553
Application No. 08/512,369
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, KRASS and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 50-55, 58-75 and 77.
The invention pertains to the allocation and scheduling of
processors in a multiprocessing computer system. More
particularly, thread-scheduling creates a strong affinity between
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