Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
we find that Tonouchi does not teach a means which sets the
resources of the widget to one or more invocations of
arbitrary functions. The BVI model of Tonouchi provides for 29
the behavior of the object which specifies the action of the
widget, and this behavior is set at compile time, and
therefore the function is not arbitrary.
Furthermore, we find that as the widgets of Tonouchi do
not exist until the code generator creates them , the means 30
disclosed in Tonouchi for setting resources form part of the
code generator and not the widget. As the graphics editor of
the Oak system permits designers to compose visual objects
from subobjects through direct manipulation, and the code
generator then translates library information generated by
the graphics editor into Interview widgets as disclosed by
Tonouchi , therefore the means for setting resources are part31
of the code generator and not the widget.
The Examiner’s argument that Tonouchi teaches the widget
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