Appeal No. 2001-2000
Application No. 08/964,096
preparing for an object which is an instance of said
class a nonpersistent version of said class description;
providing for said object a modified set of fields
containing at least one modification to said initial set of
fields such modification for a field for one of the
superclasses from which the object inherits so that the
object with the modified set of fields having the at least
one modification is not an instance of said class; and
migrating the object to the modified set of fields in a
persistent version by automatically storing in permanent
storage with the migrated object the initial set of fields
unchanged by the at least one modification along with any
action necessary to change the initial set of fields to the
modified set of fields to provide for any difference in the
migrated objects inheritance pattern from that in the
persistent class description so that the migrated object can
be thereafter reproduced in temporary memory using the
initial set of fields of the class stored with the migrated
object.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Anderson et al. (Anderson) 5,499,365 Mar. 12, 1996
Cavanaugh, III (Cavanaugh) 5,809,507 Sep. 15, 1998
(filing date July 01, 1996)
Claims 18-24, 26-30 and 32-35 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner
relies upon Anderson in view of Cavanaugh.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer
for the respective details thereof.
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