Appeal No. 2003-1030
Application No. 08/820,181
BACKGROUND
Appellant's invention relates to a stationary queue for scarce resource
management. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A multi-tasking operating system for managing simultaneous access to
scarce or serially re-usable resources by multiple process threads,
comprising:
at least one resource;
a plurality of threads requesting access to said resource; and
a stationary queue for allocating access to said resource amongst said
threads one-by-one in order of request.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Davidson et al. (Davidson) 5,630,136 May 13, 1997
Periwal et al. (Periwal) 5,644,768 Jul. 1, 1997
Claims 1-7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Davidson in view of Periwal.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellant regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 11, mailed Jan. 2, 2002) for the examiner's reasoning in support of
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