Appeal No. 1996-1715
Application No. 08/068,592
For the third rejection, the examiner substitutes
Schwartz for Miller or Driscoll. Schwartz discloses a file
management system, with various attributes assigned to each
data file or node. Schwartz teaches (column 6, lines 20-25)
that "the machine identifies a node according to the time (the
'version time') the node was created. When the machine
modifies a node in response to user input, the version time
identifying the node is updated to the current time."
Further, "to access the contents of an existing node, the user
may transmit a request to machine 14 to access ('check out')
the node, identifying the node by its NodeIndex and Time
parameters" (see column 10, lines 29-33). Thus, Schwartz
discloses using the version number and version time as
identifiers. Schwartz also states that "[t]he use of the Time
parameter permits machine 14 to identify and resolve conflicts
arising when different users attempt to modify the contents of
the same node" (column 10, lines 39-42). "The log program 70
also synchronizes multi-user access to a graph" (column 17,
lines 31-32).
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