Ex Parte BROCK et al - Page 3




         Appeal No. 2001-2672                                                       
         Application 08/990,360                                                     


         access mechanism being used to service requests for objects                
         stored in its computer system.  See pages 25 through 27 of                 
         Appellants’ specification for a detailed disclosure as to how              
         switch submechanism 415 dynamically switches between the two               
         remote object access models.                                               
              Independent claim 1 present in the application is reproduced          
         as follows:                                                                
              1.  A first computer system, said first computer system               
         comprising:                                                                
              a bus;                                                                
              a central processing unit;                                            
              computer system memory, said computer system memory being             
         connected to said central processing unit via said bus;                    
              at least one server object, said server object being stored           
         in said computer system memory; and                                        
              a shipper contained in said computer system memory for                
         execution on said central processing unit, said shipper being              
         used to ship said at least one server object to a second computer          
         system, said shipper being able to ship said at least one server           
         object to said second computer system via more than one remote             
         object access model.                                                       
                                  References                                        
              The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:              
              Morris et al. (Morris)   5,724,538           Mar.  3, 1998            
                                            (Filing date Feb. 27, 1996)             
              Colyer                   5,862,328           Jan. 19, 1999            
                                            (Filing date Sept.  6, 1996)            

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