Appeal No. 96-0067
Application 08/075,241
structure, said descriptions of physical or abstracted
physical attributes being partitioned hierarchically,
a second data structure containing, at respective
nodes, a nested, compacted, representation of each said
hierarchical partition of said physical or abstracted
physical attributes and specifications of each said
hierarchical partition of said physical or abstracted
physical attributes, and
an interface means for encapsulating said first
and second data structures from inquiring applications
each said node of said first data structure
mapping to a node of said second data structure and
each node of said second data structure mapping to at
least one node at a single hierarchical level of said
first data structure.
Claim 9 is a corresponding method claim.
Opinion
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 1-14.
Initially, it should be noted that evidently, the examiner
has cited to the same component in Liang as constituting both the
first data structure and the second data structure. In the
examiner's answer at 3, the examiner identifies a first data
structure in Liang and cites to column 4, line 41. Beginning at
that location, Liang reads: "The workstation state list contains
data descriptions and drawing information required by the
workstation to process the application model." It is apparent
that the examiner regards the workstation state list as
constituting the first data structure. Also in the answer at 3,
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