Appeal No. 2001-0860
Application No. 08/772,047
be accompanied by its Software Development Kit (page 259 & 260).
Examples of applications that control the PE500 are implemented
as a Windows dynamic link library (SPOT) or as a custom control
added to a form and define speech recognition characteristics
(SPOT/VBX) (page 261). Therefore, the speech recognition
applications disclosed by Speech are mainly software development
kits that attach speech recognition capabilities to the existing
applications. However, it is not clear from the disclosure of
Speech what specific steps should be taken to incorporate such
activities as a dynamic link library in an existing application
having a plurality of object-oriented components. In fact,
Speech provides for no detailed method of obtaining the speech
recognizing application by dynamically linking the object-
oriented input component of the application, as recited in the
claims.
OODLL, on the other hand, relates to object-oriented dynamic
link libraries for managing complex operating systems such as
Windows. The article provides general information regarding the
design and use of DLLs that shift the emphasis toward early
specification of parameters and independent design of parts of a
large software project (Page 257, right-hand column).
Additionally, OODLL refers to different approaches for designing
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