Appeal No. 2002-2168 Page 3
Application No. 08/961,743
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claim.
1. In a multi-session computing system, a system for managing a
session context for a session comprising:
a computer program concurrently executable by a plurality of
sessions, the computer program comprising a plurality of modules;
a plurality of data segments accessible to the computer program for
storing session data;
a database structure relating each session with at least one data
segment to provide each session access to the stored session data; and
a thread manager assigning computing threads to sessions.
Claims 18, 40-42, 49, 54, 60, 65, 71, and 76 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, ¶ 2, as indefinite. Claims 1, 3-5, 7, 12, 14-16, 18, 23, 25-27, 29, 40-54, 60-65,
71-76, and 82-84 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over U.S. Patent
No. 5,452,459 ("Drury"). Claims 8-11, 19-22, 30-39, 55-59, 66-70, and 77-81 stand
rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Drury and U.S. Patent No. 5,345,588
("Greenwood").
OPINION
Our opinion addresses the rejections in the following order:
• indefiniteness rejection of claims 18, 40-42, 49, 54, 60, 65, 71, and 76
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