Appeal No. 2001-0653
Application 08/820,736
It seems that "functional value computed from attributes of the
related procedure" in claim 26 could read on the disclosed
calculated check sum for the procedure. As another example, in
programming it is common to use a "make file" which is a set of
instructions (usually ASCII Text) to build a program. The make
utility reads the dependencies, figures out which items need to
be rebuilt (for example you changed the source code of a module
after the last time it was built) and automates the process by
executing the appropriate set of commands. The process of
determining which modules were changed must use some attributes
of the module and is one way of determining if specific profile
data is valid. Thus, we conclude that the examiner has not
established a prima facie case of indefiniteness. The rejection
of claim 26 is reversed.
Obviousness
Grouping of claims
Appellants identify the following groups of claims, with the
individual claims within each claim group standing or falling
together (Br6). The representative claim in each group, as
argued by appellants, is underlined; the representative claims
chosen by the examiner (EA7) differ for Groups 4 and 5, but this
does not affect the analysis.
Group 1 - Claims 1, 3, 4, 20-22, 32, 34, and 40;
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