Appeal 2007-1200
Application 09/900,251
relocations strategies are shown in Figures 16-19 and described in greater
detail in the specification (Specification 28:16 - 30:20; Figs. 16-19).
6. Examples of pheromone concentration for a variety of pump
configurations and varying values for pheromone evaporation factor,
propagation factor, and threshold are illustrated in the Figures and
Specification (Specification 10:24 - 17:8; Figs. 1-10).
7. The implementation of an agent runtime environment in software
including the creation and deposition of pheromones is described in the
Specification (Specification 18:18-25:13).
An agent in the inventive agent runtime environment is
an instance of a JAVA object that is derived from the
general “Agent” class. The state of the agent is
represented by the values in the data slots of the agent's
object and the activities are specified in its methods. It
will be readily apparent to one skilled in the art that the
use of JAVA is illustrative rather than definitive of the
invention herein described, and that implementations in
other computer languages or other computational
architectures are also possible and fall within the
invention herein claimed.
(Specification 18:18-24).
8. The software implementation of a pheromone architecture also is
described in the Specification (Specification 25:15-28:14).
PRINCIPLES OF LAW
The PTO bears the initial burden when rejecting claims for lack of
enablement.
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