Appeal No. 1997-3913
Application No. 07/860,386
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-25, which constitute
all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a generalized
applications programming interface (API) for use in a data
processing system. The generalized API is placed between the
conventional APIs of the operating system and application
program requests for use of the operating system. The
generalized API serves to convert operating system requests
into a standard format regardless of the particular operating
system under which the application program is being run. This
is said to reduce the burden on the programmer in writing
programs to be run under different operating systems.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An interface which is generalized to correspond to a
group of data processing operations, said interface including
a code conversion means for converting at least one
coded parameter used to invoke said interface into a task code
and a plurality of parameters for control of said data
processing operations, and
template means for imposing a format on at least two
of said plurality of parameters.
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