Appeal No. 1997-1654 Page 3
Application No. 08/431,307
methods for reducing the number of copies of default
attributes, the invention substantially reduces storage
requirements for a computer program that use data objects with
default attributes and overriding attributes.
Claim 26, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
26. In a computer system, a method of reducing
internal memory requirements of a program during
execution of the program, said method comprising the
steps of:
specifying a set of default attributes
prior to execution of the program;
specifying a set of one or more overriding
attributes prior to execution of the program,
said overriding attributes corresponding to
selected default attributes such that at least
one default attribute has no corresponding
overriding attribute;
starting execution of the program;
storing values for each of the default
attributes in a first internal memory of the
computer system during execution of the program;
storing values for each of the overriding
attributes in a separate second internal memory
of the computer system during execution of the
program; and
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