Appeal No. 2002-0399
Application 09/100,227
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for
exchanging data between a user computer and a provider computer
by including a documentation module 18 in a package 10 containing
a component 12 to be exchanged (Fig. 1). The documentation
module contains textual information for communicating to the user
particular properties of component 12, such as technical and
business properties that a user would need to know to exploit the
component (specification, p. 6, line 14 to p. 7, line 6).
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. An apparatus for exchanging data between a user computer
and a provider computer, said apparatus comprising a package
file containing an object-oriented programming component
including executable instructions for transferring data
between the user computer and the provider computer, a first
interface enabling an application resident on the user
computer and the object-oriented programming component to
interact, a second interface enabling an application
resident on the provider computer and the object-oriented
programming component to interact, and a documentation
module containing rules for using the object-oriented
programming component to exchange data between the user
computer and the provider computer.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Haller et al. (Haller) 6,026,379 February 15, 2000
(filed June 17, 1996)
Whitehead et al. (Whitehead) 6,085,030 July 4, 2000
(filed May 2, 1997)
Claims 1-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Haller and Whitehead.
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