Appeal No. 1997-3433
Application 08/395,548
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-10.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a method of providing object
linking and embedding (OLE), more specifically, just object
embedding, between two computers on a network each running a
stand-alone operating system supporting a clipboard.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of providing object linking and embedding
(OLE) over a computer network, in which an object
generated by an arbitrary first application at a first
computer in the network may be incorporated into an
arbitrary second application at a second computer in the
network, said first and second computers each running a
stand-alone operating system supporting a clipboard, the
method comprising the steps of:
receiving notification that the first application
has submitted material to the clipboard on the first
computer and obtaining a list of available formats for
said submitted material;
transmitting the format(s) corresponding to Object
Embedding to the second computer;
submitting the format(s) corresponding to Object
Embedding to the clipboard at the second computer for
selection by the second application.
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