Appeal No. 96-2621
Application No. 08/077,348
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 8.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and system
operating in an object oriented programming environment for
storing and restoring object persistent attribute data to and
from a persistent storage medium.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A system for storing data for a selected object to a
persistent medium in an object oriented computer system also
having a memory, a processor, and operator interaction means,
wherein data resides in system objects in said memory, and
wherein said data is manipulated by processing methods associated
with said object, the system comprising:
attribute extraction means for determining a number, names,
and types of attributes defined for said selected object, said
attribute extraction means being responsive to a data storage
request;
method construction means for constructing a method
invocation request to get attribute values for the attributes
extracted by said attribute extraction means, said method
construction being responsive to said data storage request;
data formatting means for formatting said attribute names,
types and values for storage to said persistent medium; and
data restoration means for restoring said attributes to a
restored object instance.
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