Appeal No. 2003-0319
Application No. 09/206,663 Page 5
programmatic (brief, page 4). Pointing to page 13 of the
specification, appellant asserts that appellant's queries are
structured in Object Query Language (OQL) which includes
declarative statements, but lacks executable commands (brief,
page 5). Appellant argues that Risberg discloses scripts which
are merely display instructions or other executable commands
(brief, page 5). It is further argued that Risberg’s scripts are
executable commands, and these scripts are not queries (brief,
page 5-6). Appellant concurs with the examiner that Risberg
could utilize queries to select desired data, but argues (brief,
page 6) that Risberg fails to disclose responding to an event by
initiating execution of all query processes having constraints
satisfied by the data source. Appellant further disagrees with
examiner’s interpretation of Risberg that an object can be a
query and that a script is an object, and therefore - a script
can be a query (brief, page 6).
The examiner, relying on Fig. 4 and 5, equates Risberg's
reference to queries to the claimed complex queries. The
examiner maintains that Risberg discloses queries responding to
events which execute scripts containing constraints based on data
sources (answer, page 4). Additionally, the examiner asserts
that Risberg discloses constraint indexing and related comparison
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