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, -3-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007