Appeal No. 1997-1654 Page 10
Application No. 08/431,307
override the defaults, the teachings would have suggested
“specifying a set of one or more overriding attributes ....”
Furthermore, workers in the art would have known that
when a computer program is run on a computer, the computer
loads the program into its internal memory. Lam evidences
this knowledge, for example, by teaching that although a
computer “code is made up of multiple code segments ... only
those segments in use are kept in memory. As other segments
are needed, they are read from [a] disc.” P. 24.
Accordingly, when Rosenthal’s computer program is run on a
computer, the computer loads the program into its internal
memory. Because the reference’s program specifies “a set of
default attributes” and “a set of one or more overriding
attributes” as aforementioned, the computer stores the values
of these sets in its internal memory when it loads the
program. Workers in the art also would have known that each
line of the program is stored in a separate memory location.
Accordingly, when Rosenthal’s computer program is loaded, the
computer stores the default attributes and the overriding
attributes in separate memory locations. These teachings
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