Appeal No. 2003-0513 Page 6
Application No. 08/655,879
events that are known, based on knowledge available to the agent, to be insufficient to
resolve an external event's truth value are delayed or withheld until all the local events
required to resolve the external event's truth value have been assigned final truth
values." Abs., ll. 22-27.
We are unpersuaded that a sending agent delays transfer of a notification to a
receiving agent based on the state of a third agent. To the contrary, Klein explains that
"external events in other agents (herein called third party agents) that are elements
of an external event's condition will not cause a message from the present agent to
be delayed, since those conditions elements are treated as 'Don't Care' values when
evaluating the relevant condition." Col. 13, ll. 9-14 (emphases added).
The absence of a first component delaying transfer of a notification to a second
component based on the state of a third component negates anticipation. Therefore,
we reverse the rejection of claim 10; of claims 11-13, which depend therefrom; of
claim 15; of claims 16-18, which depend therefrom; of claim 20; and of claims 21, 22,
and 25, which depend therefrom.
CONCLUSION
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