Appeal No. 96-0067
Application 08/075,241
(Lazansky)
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 1-5, 9, and 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Liang.
Claims 6-8 and 11-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Liang and Lazansky.
The Invention
The invention is directed to an information model comprising
a first data structure containing at its nodes hierarchically
partitioned descriptions of data attributes, and a second data
structure containing at its nodes representations and
specifications of each hierarchical partition in the first data
structure. Each node of the first data structure maps to a node
of the second data structure, and each node of the second data
structure maps to at least one node at a single hierarchical
level of the first data structure. There is also an interface
which encapsulates the first and second data structures from
inquiring application programs.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. An information model comprising
a first data structure containing, at respective
nodes, descriptions of physical or abstracted physical
attributes of a spatially partitioned physical
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