Appeal No. 2000-1973
Application 08/890,906
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
rejection of claims 2-6 and 12-22. 2 Claims 7-11 are objected to
as depending from a rejected claim.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for
enforcing encapsulation of an object having object data and at
least one object method program, by restricting access to the
object data to only authorized method programs including the at
least one object method program.
Claim 2 is reproduced below.
2. A data protection apparatus, said data protection
apparatus comprising:
a first object, said first object being stored on a
computer system;
first object data and a first at least one method
program associated with said first object; and
a storage protection mechanism which enforces
encapsulation of said first object, said storage protection
mechanism enforcing encapsulation by restricting access to
said first object data to only first authorized method
programs, said first authorized method programs being a set
of method programs which includes at least one method
program, said first method program being included in said
first authorized method programs.
2 These claims in their present form were finally rejected
in parent Application 08/336,581 (Paper No. 5) and were rejected
in this application (Paper No. 5). Thus, the claims have been
twice rejected and the appeal is proper under 35 U.S.C. § 134.
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