Appeal No. 2000-0313
Application No. 08/659,430
event handler for handling internal events such as passage of
time, entering a composite, or starting a stream of internal
events. The second argument presented is that DeRose fails
to teach or suggest compiling the ASCII source file to
condense the composite defined and the composites referenced
by the composite defined thereby reducing the number of files
within a multimedia application. Appellants’ third argument
is that the authoring interface of DeRose does not identify
the particular structural relationship of the data objects.
Because we agree with appellants' second argument, for
the reasons which follow, we need not address the first and
third arguments presented. The examiner takes the position
(answer, page 5) that pages 79 and 96 of DeRose disclose
compiling the ASCII text file, generating at the network
server a binary file based on the step of compiling, and
storing at the network server the binary file. In response to
appellants' assertion (brief, page 4) that DeRose does not
teach reducing the number of files within a multimedia
application, the examiner asserts (answer, pages 5 and 6) that
"it is irrelevant whether or not DeRose teaches reducing the
number of files within a multimedia application. Instead,
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