Appeal No. 2002-0382 Application No. 09/133,878 storing a table containing a table entry for each program instruction that is to be remediated, each table entry containing one or more remediation parameters; detecting a program location corresponding to an instruction to be remediated while executing the program; and upon detecting a program location corresponding to an instruction to be remediated, executing the instruction to be remediated in accordance with the remediation parameters in the table entry corresponding to the instruction to be remediated. The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is: Roth et al. (Roth) 5,878,422 Mar. 02, 1999 (filed Apr. 09, 1997) Claims 1 through 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Roth. Reference is made to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 9, mailed January 4, 2001) and the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 13, mailed August 22, 2001) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No. 12, filed June 15, 2001) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. OPINION We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior art references, and the respective positions articulated by 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007