Appeal No. 2002-2322
Application 09/094,314
transaction coordinator is absolutely necessary during the
processing of the transaction. The invention identifies two
events which require the transaction coordinator, and the
coordinator is created only when one of these events has
occurred.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A server processing apparatus for use in a
client/server computing system which carries out transactions,
said apparatus comprising:
means for receiving a command instructing the server
processing apparatus to carry out a step of a transaction;
means for beginning the transaction; and
means for determining whether a predetermined
triggering event has occurred during the carrying out of the
transaction, and only if the triggering event has occurred,
creating a means for coordinating the transaction with respect to
a plurality of elements that are involved in carrying out the
transaction.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Hapner et al. (Hapner) 5,940,827 Aug. 17, 1999
(filed Nov. 10, 1997)
Sadiq et al. (Sadiq) 6,029,177 Feb. 22, 2000
(filed Jan. 30, 1998)
Claims 1-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Hapner taken alone
with respect to claims 1-13 and Hapner in view of Sadiq with
respect to claims 14-21.
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007