Appeal No. 2001-2254
Application 08/951,937
The disclosed invention pertains to a process whereby a new
general purpose function could be simply added to already
dispensed and distributed object oriented programs. The
invention provides for the connecting of a new program object to
an existing object through a connecting object interfacing
between the original object being connected to and the new
program object. The connecting object functions independently of
the attributes and methods contained in the original object and
is itself without such data attributes.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a computer controlled object oriented programming
system having means for interfacing a plurality of programming
objects wherein said programming objects may be initial
programming objects and combinations of such initial programming
objects combining functions of said initial objects, and each
programming object including data attributes, methods of
manipulating such attributes and predetermined interface data
defining a required common interface with the other programming
objects, the improvement wherein said system further comprises:
at least one connecting object without data attributes and
interfacing with at least one of said programming objects
including,
means for detecting the occurrence of at least one selected
condition in said one object, and
means responsive to said detecting means for notifying a
second object also interfacing with said connecting object of
said occurrence.
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