Appeal No. 2004-1430
Application 09/080,504
The disclosed invention pertains to an information
handling system having a plurality of interacting tasks. More
particularly, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for
providing notification of abnormal task termination.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In an information handling system having a plurality of
interacting tasks, a method of providing for notification of
abnormal task termination, comprising the steps of:
defining for each of one or more target tasks an affinity
list containing one or more entries for other tasks that interact
with the target task and are to be notified on abnormal
termination of the target task;
in response to receiving an affinity request specifying a
target task and another task, adding an entry for the other task
to an affinity list defined for the target task; and
in response to detecting abnormal termination of a target
task, notifying each other task contained in the affinity list
defined for the target task.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Tulpule et al. (Tulpule) 4,980,824 Dec. 25, 1990
Huras et al. (Huras) 6,125,401 Sep. 26, 2000
(filed Mar. 28, 1996)
Claims 1-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Tulpule in view of
Huras.
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