Appeal No. 2002-1282
Application No. 08/778,459
From our understanding of Fulton, an application is
registered with watchd and watchd monitors the application
(column 2, lines 31-33 of Fulton). Thus, we do have, in Fulton,
a registered component (the application) and a monitor (watchd)
for monitoring the registered component. Moreover, there is a
failure recovery taught by Fulton as watchd restarts the
application on a new process when it is detected that the
monitored application is “dead or hung” (column 2, lines 33-35).
As the examiner recognized, however, Fulton fails to disclose
that the failure recovery is performed when the registered
component’s termination is detected by a closing of the
connection between the registered component and the system
monitor.
There is not even an indication in Fulton that there is a
“connection” between watchd and the application but even if we
agree that there is some type of “connection” between them, in
the sense that watchd is monitoring the application, there is
certainly no disclosure or suggestion by Fulton of performing the
failure recovery services (in Fulton’s case, a restarting of the
application on a new process) when the application’s termination
is detected “by a closing of the connection,” as required by the
instant claims.
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