Appeal No. 1997-4128
Application 08/354,699
The argument is made that nothing suggests that a history
tape for debug commands as disclosed by Padawer may be combined
with an object as disclosed in Coplien to achieve the
functionality of the claimed invention which calls for saving the
context of a user event.
Appellants urge that none of the references discloses or
suggests employing action objects, action slots and activation
objects to visually debug an object in a object-oriented program.
Each of an action object, action slot and activation object
requires a software object in an object oriented environment, not
merely a
function module or routine as disclosed in Coplien or a simple
record as taught in Padawer. It is urged that an activation
object stores the context of the user event, and that this feature
is not taught or suggested by the references.
The examiner argues that Padawer is analogous prior art
because it is in appellants’ field of endeavor, which is debugging
computer programs. The position is taken that command-line
programming techniques, such as recording “records to permit each
debug step to be precisely reproduced” (Padawer col. 5, lines 12-
15), are demonstrated as object oriented programming techniques in
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