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`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITSIS (OR REMAINS) CLOSEDin this application.
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`NOTICE OF ALLOWABILITY IS NOT A GRANTOF PATENT RIGHTS.This application is subject to withdrawal from issue at theinitiative
`of the Office or upon petition by the applicant. See 37 CFR 1.313 and MPEP 1308.
`1. KX This communication is responsive to amendmentfiled on October 14, 2004.
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`OGILVY, IAN CHARLES
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`Phuoc H. Nguyen
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`2. XX) Theallowed claim(s)is/are 1-5,7-12 and 16-21.
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`3. K] The drawingsfiled on 22 October 1999 are accepted by the Examiner.
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`4.JAcknowledgmentis made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or(f).
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`2. ( Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. ____
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`7.) DEPOSIT OF and/or INFORMATION about the deposit of BBOLOGICAL MATERIAL must be submitted. Note the
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`1. &] Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)
`5. 0 Notice of Informal Patent Application (PTO-152)
`2. 1 Notice of Draftperson's Patent Drawing Review (PTO-948)
`6. CF Interview Summary (PTO-413),
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`7. Examiner's Amendment/Comment
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`3. I Information Disclosure Statements (PTO-1449 or PTO/SB/08),
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`8. IX] Examiner's Statement of Reasonsfor Allowance
`4. (] Examiner's Comment Regarding Requirement for Deposit
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`Application/Control Number: 09/381,143
`Art Unit: 2143
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`Examiner’s Statement ofReasonsfor Allowance
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`This office action is in response to the amendmentfiled on October 14, 2004. Previous
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`office action contained claims 1-12, and 16-21. Applicant amended claim 1 and canceled claim
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`6. Amendmentfiled on October 14, 2004 have been entered and madeofrecord.
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`Claims 1-5,7-12, and 16-21 are allowed.
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`Claims include limitations that the prior art of record does not appear to teach or render
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`obvious the claimed limitations as recited below.
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`The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
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`Stern reference disclose a virtual machine means whichincludesa virtual function processor and
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`function processorinstructions for controlling operation of the device, Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
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`provides a Java interpreter and runtime environmenton top of processor hardware, which can be
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`implemented as a microprocessor, and enables Java bytecode to be executed as operating system call on
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`any processorregardless of the operation system. However, the priorart of record fails to teach or
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`suggest individually or in combination as stated in claims 1,16, and 18 “a virtual processor, whichis
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`arrange to be called by the function processor and whichis arranged to carry out the message handling
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`tasks of assembling, disassembling, and comparing the message underthe direction of the message
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`instruction meansthat is arranged to provide directions for operation of the virtual message processor,”
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`and in combination with otherlimitations as set forth in the independent claims. Claims 2-5,7-12, and
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`17, and 19-21 are allowed due to dependentclaims.
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`Allowance.”
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`Conclusion
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`Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the
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`examiner should be directed to Phuoc H. Nguyen whosetelephone numberis 571-272-3919.
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