Appeal No. 2002-1797
Application 09/129,38
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to supporting an application process
executing in a distributed computing environment by monitoring
environmental information about the distributed computing
environment and dynamically adjusting the operation of a
middleware service (software that functions as a conversion or
translation layer or interface), such as a fault-tolerance
service, in response to the environmental information.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A fault-tolerance method for an application process
executing in a distributed computing environment, said
fault-tolerance method comprising the steps of:
monitoring said application process with a
fault-tolerance service;
obtaining environmental information about the
distributed computing environment;
dynamically adjusting the operation of the
fault-tolerance service in response to said environmental
information.
THE REFERENCE
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Lipa et al. (Lipa) 6,061,722 May 9, 2000
(filed December 23, 1996)
Lipa discloses a system and method for automated measurement
of network performance and hardware characteristics without
interfering with normal network operations (col. 2, lines 8-20).
In particular, Lipa deals with multiplayer games played over a
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