Appeal No. 2002-1282
Application No. 08/778,459
indicates the registered process has terminated, are performed.
The examiner indicates that Fulton does not explicitly disclose
that the failure recovery is performed when the registered
component’s termination is detected by closing of a connection
but the examiner finds that it would have been obvious
to realize that Fulton teaches the failure recovery
when the registered component termination is detected
since Fulton teaches (col. 2, lines 10-56) that watchd
monitors the application and when detects [sic] that
the process is dead or hung, watchd restarts the
application on a new process, and furthermore the
detection would include closing of connection since he
teaches watchd daemon that detects a dead or hung
application, thus would detect a closing of the connection
related to a dead or hung application (answer-page 4).
For their part, appellants argue that the examiner has
failed to take into account a specific claim limitation, viz.,
the monitoring of a registered component by means of a connection
between the registered component and the system monitor, and
performing the failure recovery services when the registered
component’s termination is detected by a closing of the
connection. In contrast, urge appellants, Fulton’s procedure is
to monitor a process either actively by polling or passively by
receiving a signal from the process (principal brief-page 3).
We agree with appellants.
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