Appeal No. 2001-1204
Application No. 08/971,021
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for generating a representation of a work
process in a memory of a data processing system, comprising
the steps of:
receiving a first user input and a second user input;
the first user input indicating a first object and
a second object; the first object and the second object
each having a set of features; the first object
specifying an activity for creating a document; the
second object specifying a state of the document for
initiating the activity;
the second user input indicating a plurality of
rules for defining a relationship between the first
object and the second object; the plurality of rules
including a constraint to be satisfied by a feature of
the first object and a feature of the second object in
a manner that specifies the activity and the document
are duals of each other; and
compiling, in the memory, a grammar representing the
work process; said compiling step generating the grammar
from the plurality of rules indicated by the second user
input.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Srinivasan 5,548,506 Aug. 20, 1996
Ivanov 5,706,452 Jan. 6, 1998
(filed Dec. 6, 1995)
Claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, 8 through 11, 13 through 16,
18 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Srinivasan in view of Ivanov.
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