Appeal No. 2003-1113
Application No. 09/286,124
objects on another side of the network (col. 2, lines 40-67).
Noble does not disclose sending the messages as a batch.
Itoh discloses an object-oriented operating system wherein
an object accesses another object by calling into its meta-space,
a meta-space being a set of meta-objects that manages a simple
object (page 4). “The meta-objects are associated with the
simple object via a descriptor object that holds a reference to
all the required meta-objects.” See id. A meta-space can be
represented by an object called a reflector which gathers
statistics on message communication patterns, thereby enabling
the meta-space to reconfigure itself to change the send mode from
a simple send per invocation to a batched send (pages 4 and 10-
11). Batching two or more messages into a single packet reduces
execution time (page 10).
The examiner argues:
[I]t would have been obvious to one having
ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was
made to incorporate the message batching technique
applied on the distributed object network as taught by
Itoh into the Noble’s system. Doing so would speed up
the performance on the distributing object network.
[answer, page 4]
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Examiner notes Itoh discloses a network using
object oriented technology, including message batching
technique [Itoh page 10]. [answer, page 8]
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Examiner notes both Noble and Itoh teach Object
Oriented technology applied to a network environment
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