Appeal No. 2003-1113
Application No. 09/286,124
1. A computer implemented method for facilitating communication
between objects across a network, comprising the acts of:
receiving on a second side of a network a message batch from
a first side of said network, said message batch comprising a
plurality of messages from a first plurality of objects;
parsing said plurality of messages from said message batch;
and
distributing said plurality of messages to a second
plurality of objects, wherein each of said second plurality of
objects provides an implementation for a common interface which
is invoked to distribute said plurality of messages to said
second plurality of objects.
THE REFERENCES
Noble et al. (Noble) 5,822,585 Oct. 13, 1998
Jun-ichiro Itoh et al. (Itoh), “Using meta-objects to support
optimisation in the Apertos operating system” 1-14, originally in
Proc. USENIX Conf. on Object-Oriented Tech. (Monterey, Cal.,
June 1995).
THE REJECTION
Claims 1-38 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Noble in view of Itoh.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejection.
Each of the appellants’ independent claims requires sending
messages from objects on one side of a network across the network
as a batch.
Noble discloses an object-oriented framework wherein
messages are sent from objects on one side of a network to
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