Appeal 2007-1599
Application 10/255,748
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellants have invented a method and system for analyzing portions
of a program that are inaccessible to the compiler to optimize the compiling
of the program (Figure 5; Specification 3 to 5).
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and it reads as
follows:
1. A method performed by a translator/optimizer, the method
comprising:
analyzing the program to gather information regarding global
variables used in the program including portions of the program to which a
compiler has no access;
providing the information gathered about the global variables to the
compiler that is to compile the program; and
compiling the program with the compiler in view of the gathered
information so as optimize the program.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
Peyton US 5,920,723 Jul. 6, 1999
Kolodner US 6,675,379 B1 Jan. 6, 2004
(filed Jun. 30, 2000)
The Examiner rejected claims 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, and 27
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based upon the teachings of Peyton. The
Examiner rejected claims 3 and 10 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) based upon the
teachings of Peyton. The Examiner rejected claims 5, 6, 13, 17, 19 to 26,
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