Appeal No. 2002-0340
Application No. 09/094,827
plurality of different data processing platforms that are instances of the pre-specified
abstract machine. The same application program then is executed by the various
different data processing platforms using a multiplatform interpreter located at each
platform. As a result, only one application program and only one multiplatform
interpreter needs to be prepared and delivered to the customers. The same application
program is executed on any one of the various different platforms using the same
multiplatform interpreter.
Independent claim 7 is reproduced as follows:
7. A method for enabling execution of a same application program on
a first data processing platform and on a second data processing platform
different from the first data processing platform using a multiplatform
interpreter, wherein:
the first and second data processing platforms each comprise
processing means and resource facilities satisfying predetermined
quantitative minimum requirements of a pre-specified abstract machine
having a predetermined instruction set and a predetermined data set;
the first and second data processing platforms are respective
instances of the pre-specified abstract machine; and
said application program is based on said predetermined
instruction and data sets; and
the method comprises the steps of:
supplying to the first or to the second data processing platform via
a telecommunications channel at least one of the application program and
the multiplatform interpreter; and
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