Appeal No. 1997-3913
Application No. 07/860,386
interface. Appellants argue that the interfaces in Burger are
not generic to a group of data processing operations as
claimed. We do not agree. As noted above, the express
language of claim 1 does not require that there be a plurality
of different operating systems. The Burger interfaces
correspond to different application program interfaces(95) as
well as different operating system interfaces(97). The
functions called within the application program or the
operating system comprise a group of data processing
operations as claimed.
Appellants argue that Burger does not convert a coded
parameter into a task code and a plurality of parameters for
control of data processing operations. Burger discloses that
a generic API having a plurality of parameters is defined for
each of a plurality of functions (tasks) [column 3, lines 44-
54]. We interpret this disclosure to mean that Burger’s APIs
convert
incoming calls into a task code (function to be performed) and
a plurality of control parameters as recited in claim 1.
In summary, appellants’ arguments are either not
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