Appeal No. 1999-1452
Application 08/436,830
1. An object-oriented computing system, comprising:
a data file structure stored in a memory which contains an identification of
objects in a software program, properties and handlers associated with respective
objects, pointers to ancestor objects from which a given object inherits properties and
handlers, and pointers to descendant objects which inherit properties and handlers from
a given object;
a user interface via a user selects an object and which displays ancestor objects
and descendant objects for the selected object;
means associated with said interface for enabling a user to indicate a change in
relationship between a selected object and at least one ancestor or descendant object;
and
means responsive to an indicated change for modifying one or more pointers
associated with the selected object in said data file structure to correspond to said
change.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Pazel 5,410,648 Apr. 25, 1995
Frid-Nielsen 5,432,903 July 11, 1995
(filing date Apr. 26, 1994)
Berry 5,546,519 Aug. 13, 1996
(filing date Feb. 28, 1994)
Myers et al. (Myers), "Environment for rapidly creating interactive design tools,"
The Visual Computer, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 94-116 (June 1992).
All claims on appeal, claims 1-27, stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103. As
evidence of obviousness as to claims 1-18, the examiner relies upon appellant’s
admitted prior art (apparently specification page 1, line 10 through page 3, line 21),
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