Appeal No. 95-1599
Application 08/062,492
The disclosed invention relates to a change management
system for specifying and managing changes to an object in
response to received calls from an application that is
independent of the change management system.
Claim 26 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
26. A change management system for in response to received
calls from an application independent of said changed management
system specifying and managing changes to an object and a
plurality of groupings of a plurality of said object comprising,
in combination:
a version abstract machine including a first instruction
set, said version abstract machine responsive to said received
calls from said application to said first instruction set for
specifying and managing evolution of said object as a version
graph having a version graph name;
a configuration abstract machine including a second
instruction set, said configuration abstract machine responsive
to said received calls from said application to said second
instruction set for specifying and managing composition of each
of said plurality of groupings of said plurality of said object
as a configuration graph having a configuration graph name; and
a processor machine, said processor machine responsive to
said version abstract machine and said configuration abstract
machine for executing said first instruction set and said second
instruction set.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Leblang et al. (Leblang) 4,809,170 Feb. 28, 1989
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