Appeal No. 1997-4219
Application No. 08/315,745
on a target application system program. Thus, again, there
appears to be some input from the target application system
program.
To whatever extent there is any doubt about what the
claimed “cross referencing” or “cross reference” entails, we
interpret the instant claim language to mean the disclosed
“cross referencing,” i.e., that a contribution from both the
source application system and the target application system is
required.
With this interpretation in mind, we look to the applied
references. The examiner appears to have interpreted the
disclosed “intermediate structure” of Jack and the Common Data
Representation (CDR) of Pham to constitute the claimed “cross
referencing” or “cross reference.”
In Jack, the intermediate structure accepts information
from the source structure format and permits a conversion into
the target structure in the target format but the conversion
appears to be one way, i.e., the only input to the
intermediate structure, or “cross referencing structure,” is
from the source end, with no input from the target end. Thus,
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