Appeal No. 97-2477
Application 08/212,908
regard, claim 1 specifies that the fixed and limited number of
descriptors would “behaviorally describe any digital device to
be designed,” and claim 11 specifies that a behavioral
description of a digital device is constructed by using
symbolic icons drawn from the fixed number of such icons
contained in the icon library.
While it is true that neither claim 1 nor claim 11
expressly specifies that the description must solely be at the
behavioral level, both claims require that a behavioral
description for a digital device be provided from the fixed
number of icons in the icon library. In light of the
appellant’s specification from pages 2-4 which set forth what
constitutes a behavioral description model and what
constitutes a structural description model of a digital
device, it is implicit that a behavioral description has a
substantially higher level of abstraction and does not include
use of lower level structural elements. An illustrative
example of such behavioral descriptor icons is shown in
appellant’s Figure 8.
According to the appellant, the icons shown in Figure 2
of Dunn are lower level structural elements and are not at a
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