Appeal No. 1999-1604
Application 08/741,419
property and then determines widgets in the X windows motif
to match the resource. After a matching resource in a widget
in the client application is found, the resource value is set
in the matching widget using Xt Intrinsics function.
Therefore Swanson relies on intrinsic functions and Xlib
functions to set a resource in the widget, and intrinsics and
Xlib functions are not part of the widget. This, Appellants
argue , is contrary to the claimed requirement that the16
widget comprise a means that sets a resource to one or more
invocations.
Appellants further argue that the widgets of Swanson do17
not set a resource to an invocation to a set of functions as
recited in the claims (Appellants’ emphasis). Appellants
point to the definition of invocations being data items 18
which identify functions and the arguments for the identified
functions. In Swanson, Appellants assert, the function of
the widgets for window 300 are set when the widget is
16Brief, page 10.
17Brief, page 10.
18Specification, page 8, lines 5-8.
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