Appeal No. 2002-0399
Application 09/100,227
(Whitehead, abstract and col. 4, line 36 - col. 5, line 44)"
(FR3). The examiner concludes (FR3; EA5):
It would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill
in the art at the time the invention was made to incorporate
a documentation module as taught by Whitehead into the data
exchange system of Haller in order to provide the client
rules for exchanging data over the internet thereby
enhancing cutomizability of the system to the particular
transaction and to make the system more adaptable to
different protocols.
Appellants argue that neither Haller nor Whitehead teaches
or suggests packaging an object-oriented programming component
with a documentation module (Br6).
The examiner responds (EA8-9):
Whitehead teaches a component management system (CMS) which
enables communication between the server and the client
(Whitehead, abstract and col. 4, line 36 - col. 5, line 44).
A global component registry offers a heterogeneous component
to the client by providing an appropriate interface for data
exchange. The interface provides the rules for data
exchange between the client and server. The component
registry CMS comprises various repositories. The various
repositories of the component registry conforms to the
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) to
incorporate rules and instructions to the object package.
CORBA enables interoperability in heterogeneous
environments. CORBA Object implementations include
executable code as well as definitions that provides the
information needed to create the object and to allow the
object to participate in providing an appropriate set of
services. An implementation typically includes, among other
things, definitions of the methods that operate upon the
state of an object.
The examiner further states (EA9):
Whitehead explicitly discloses the use of CORBA and its
interfaces. The techniques incorporated in CORBA to
exchange data objects were notoriously well known in the
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