Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
in a computer system that is implementing an X Window System,
the drawing widget representing a window in the X Window
System that contains one or more graphics elements, the
drawing widget being characterized by:
a set values method which when executed in the computer
system sets a resource of the widget to one or more
invocations of functions accessible to the computer system,
the functions belonging to a set thereof including at least
an XLIB graphics function; and
an expose method which when executed by the computer
system produces the element in the window by employing the
one or more invocations in the resource in the resource to
execute functions from the set thereof.
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Swanson et al. (Swanson) 5,600,778 Feb.
4, 1997
Tonouchi et al., “Creating Visual Objects by Direct
Manipulation,” Workshop on Visual Languages, 1992 IEEE,
pp. 95-101.
Claims 1-24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Tonouchi when taken with Swanson.
Claim 25 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by Swanson.
Rather than reiterate the arguments of Appellants and the
Examiner, reference is made to the Brief and Examiner's 1
1The Brief was received September 2, 1998.
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