Appeal No. 2002-0807
Application No.08/672,588
The claimed invention relates to a client-server environment
in which application program instructions, in response to a
partitioning program, are monitored and intercepted for
partitioning into a plurality of sets of instructions. The media
related portion of the partitioned instructions is executed by
the client processor while the non-media related portion is
executed by the server computer. According to Appellants
(specification, page 2), the remote client-user interacts locally
with the application which is running media-related instructions,
thereby appearing to the client-user that the application is
being executed completely by the remote client.
Representative claim 27 is reproduced as follows:
27. In a distributed computing system comprising a first
processor connectable to a second processor, wherein an
application executable by the first processor is provided, a
method comprising the step of:
partitioning the application into a plurality of portions,
including a media portion for execution by the second processor,
such that when the second processor executes the media portion,
the application is effectively executed by the second processor;
wherein the application comprises a plurality of
instructions, at least one of such instructions being monitored
for interception, executable by the first processor, at least one
monitored instruction having a state which is communicated to the
second processor, the execution of the application being
partitioned effectively as the second processor executes a pre-
defined generic program which comprises a plurality of
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