Appeal No. 2001-1478
Application No. 08/853,539
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to an event routing mechanism in a computer
system. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 1 and 29, which are reproduced below.
1. A method for routing an event to a human interface object in a
computer system, said method comprising:
assigning a routing type to each event;
receiving an event;
determining the routing type of the event; and
routing the event based on the determined routing type.
29. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon one or more routing
data structures for specifying a routing type for each kind of event being
handled.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Daniel et al. (Daniel) 5,321,837 Jun. 14, 1994
Gough et al. (Gough) 5,680,617 Oct. 21, 1997
(filed May 16, 1994)
Claims 1-45 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Daniel in view of Gough.
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