Ex Parte DYCK et al - Page 2




          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                 



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