Appeal No. 1999-2720
Application No. 08/580,965
and its successor/predecessor, and finds that it would have
been obvious to apply the teaching to version S3 and S1 so
that memory taken is minimized by storing the difference
instead of another full version.
As to items (c) and (d) above, the Examiner points to the
Ambriola teaching of the Cedar version management system,
including the bringover command for making a copy of the
original version, for modifying a copy, and for integrating
the modification by the storeback command. Examiner notes
that Ambriola teaches that the description files and all the
referenced files form an initial version/revision subjected to
modification/change.
In conclusion to the rejection, the Examiner finds that
since Tichy and Ambriola address version management, it would
have been obvious to combine the teachings of Ambriola to
integrate/incorporate into a copy of the initial version the
modified initial version of the system of Tichy, so that the
system is provided with the ability to extend to a distributed
system with multiple machines.
In response to Appellant's argument that since Tichy
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