Time out with Notification Service

There is an issue with the notification service. It times out quite often.
There is a patch available for that (that may be obtained from metalink) - 5014466. However this patch works with only the 10.1.2.0.0 version.
There is no backport of the fix to 10.1.2.0.2 as of now.

With 10.1.2.0.2 version, it gives the following error:

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Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 1.0.0.0.52
Copyright (c) 2005 Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved..

We recommend you refer to the OPatch documentation under
OPatch/docs for usage reference. We also recommend using
the latest OPatch version. For the latest OPatch version
and other support related issues, please refer to document
293369.1 which is viewable from metalink.oracle.com

Oracle Home = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel
Location of Oracle Universal Installer components = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel/oui
Location of OraInstaller.jar = "/opt/oraias/oas/obpel/oui/jlib"
Oracle Universal Installer shared library = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel/oui/lib/linux/
liboraInstaller.so
Location of Oracle Inventory Pointer = /etc/oraInst.loc
Location of Oracle Inventory = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel/inventory
Path to Java = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel/jre/1.4.2/bin/java
Log file = /opt/oraias/oas/obpel/.patch_storage//*.log


MISSING_COMPONENT : oracle.tip.pcbpel.runtime, 10.1.2.0.0 (found a component wit
h higher version)

This Oracle Home does not have components/versions required by the patch.

ERROR: OPatch failed during pre-reqs check.
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A tar was opened on 2nd May 2006 with Oracle for this issue.