Appeal 2007-2127
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,621
THE INVENTION
The claims are directed to a clock-driven "preemptive multithreading"
method (claims 1-9, 37, 63-68) and "preemptive multithreading" computer
system (claims 10-36, 38-62, and 69-83).
The 1982, 1985, 1990, and 1994 applications all share the same
"Detailed Description" portion of the specification. The 1982 application
described that a problem with programming in a compiled high-level
programming language is that "a compiled language requires a repeated
sequence of steps comprising loading the editor, writing or editing the
source code, loading the compiler, executing the compiler, loading the
linker, executing the linker, running the program, and repeating the sequence
when an error is indicated during compilation of the source code or
execution of the object code" (1982 application, page 2). The 1982
application describes a computer system in which a high-level language
"source code" program is "compiled" by a compiler into an "object code"
program on a line-by-line basis as each line of the program is entered at the
console by the programmer, i.e., an "incremental compiler."
The 1982 application is accurately described in Reiffin v. Microsoft,
214 F.3d at 1344, 54 USPQ2d at 1916:
In 1982 Mr. Reiffin filed a patent application entitled
"Computer System with Real-time Compilation." The application
discloses a system in which a combination of software and hardware
compiles a computer program concurrently with the program's entry
into an editor, achieving what is described as "contemporaneous
real-time entry and compilation of a source program." A source
program is a computer program written in a high level human
readable language which the application refers to as source code; the
end product of the compilation of the source program is a binary
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