Appeal No. 1999-1890
Application No. 08/566,618
subclass in the dynamic language having the unique name of the
class object in the system object model environment. Claim 1
is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A method, implemented in a computer system, for
subclassing system object model objects in an object-oriented
dynamic language, comprising:
providing a class object in a system object model
environment having a unique name;
creating a proxy class object in said dynamic language
having a pointer to said class object in said system object
model environment;
creating a subclass in said dynamic language having the
unique name of said class object in said system object model
environment; and
calling a dispatcher from said proxy class object for
searching a method for said class object in said system object
model environment.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Schmitter 5,583,983 Dec.
10, 1996
(filed Nov. 17, 1994)
Margaret A. Ellis et al., The Annotated C++ Reference Manual,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (1991), pp. 166-168 and 195-197.
(Ellis)
Appellants' admitted prior art at pages 1-3 of the
specification (AAPA)
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