Appeal No. 1997-4128
Application 08/354,699
at page 4, lines 6-11, of their specification, appellants
acknowledge that an object in object-oriented programming refers
to methods (such as resize), data (such as color) and events (such
as button-was-pressed). With respect to appellants’ Figure 3,
resize is the “Event” in an action slot 302, color is the “obj”
(data) in an action object 306a within the action slot 302, and
button-was-pressed is the method “m1” in the action object 306a
within the action slot 302. Because Coplien discusses objects and
appellants acknowledge that an object in object-oriented programs
of the prior art includes the above three elements (event, obj and
method), it is clear that Coplien discloses action objects and
action slots.
At page 17, lines 24-27, of their specification, appellants
disclose that an activation object is an object that contains
context required to reproduce the event triggering the action slot
and an action slot. At page 16, line 30, of their specification,
appellants further disclose that context is information required
to recreate an
event. Padawer discloses context in that the debug history tape
contains data used to re-execute debug commands, that is, recreate
an event. However, Padawer discloses no action slot and, contrary
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