Appeal No. 96-2621
Application No. 08/077,348
“responsive to a data storage request” as required by claim 1.
The “method construction means” in claim 1 is likewise
dependent upon the “data storage request.” The examiner has not
discussed such a request.
With respect to the “data formatting means” in claim 1, the
examiner has turned to Filepp to show formatting of attributes
(Answer, pages 3 and 4). In Abraham, the “Object Reference 300
is . . . a data attribute within some other persistent object”
(column 7, lines 51 through 53), and the class ID 340 within
Object Reference 300 “will indicate whether the class of the
object is persistent, and consequently, whether or not the object
might be stored persistently on a database 134” (column 8, lines
10 through 13). Thus, a persistent object will be stored on
persistent database 134 when the class of the object is
persistent. It is assumed that the attribute data of the
persistent object has to be formatted in some form when it is
stored on the database. If so, then the teachings of Filepp are
redundant to teachings and suggestions that are inherently a part
of Abraham.
According to the examiner (Answer, page 3), the Object
Manager (Figure 4) in Abraham is a “data restoration means”
(column 8 and column 9, lines 26 through 33). The examiner’s
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