Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
Swanson’s teachings stating “that ‘widgets utilize25
application resources to specify window characteristics’ and
that an ‘application resource can be any user-customizable
parameter that affects an application’s behavior or
appearance’.” In addition, the Examiner cites Appellants’
definition that an invocation is a “data item which26
represents a function and actual arguments for the function.”
Thus, the Examiner finds that Swanson teaches changing
invocations to functions by dynamically modifying resource
values.
Finally, regarding Tonouchi, the Examiner admits that 27
Tonouchi does not teach setting a resource at runtime, but
asserts that in Tonouchi the widget set its own resource to28
an invocation of a function where the callback function to be
invoked is entered.
After careful consideration of the arguments presented,
25Column 6, lines 39-45.
26Specification, page 8, lines 5-8.
27Answer, page 9.
28Page 97, column 2.
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