Appeal No. 2001-0024
Application No. 08/827,285 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to an object oriented
technology framework for a general ledger. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 3,
which is reproduced as follows:
3. A computer system comprising:
a central processing unit;
a user interface; and
a main memory having an operating system that supports an
object oriented programming environment containing an object
oriented framework that provides an extensible business financial
general ledger system, the object oriented framework comprising a
set of object oriented classes including at least one user-
extensible class that a user of the framework extends using
object oriented principles of inheritance to define a business
financial general ledger application, the main memory further
including an Application category of cooperating objects that
contain business financial data and the framework enables
performing general ledger operations on the business financial
data, wherein the Application category of cooperating objects
includes a Chart of Account Attributes object class that
specifies an analysis group, account types, and account
attributes of the business financial data.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Marks 5,117,356 May 26, 1992
Parrish et al. 5,659,735 Aug. 19, 1997
(Parrish) (filed Dec. 9, 1994)
Bigus 5,787,425 Jul. 28, 1998
(filed Oct. 1, 1996)
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