Appeal No. 2002-0399
Application 09/100,227
art. The incorporation of executable code and necessary
instructions as taught by the CORBA specifications are
integral to the operation of the system as taught by
Whitehead.
The examiner appears to find the documentation module in two
places: (1) the component registry in Whitehead; and
(2) inherently in CORBA objects present in Whitehead.
As to (1), the examiner does not explain how column 4,
line 36 to column 5, line 44 of Whitehead teaches a documentation
module in a package file to be exchanged between a user computer
and a provider computer. Our reading of this portion of
Whitehead is that the component registry responds to a consumer
application request for a component by locating the component.
There is no suggestion in Whitehead that the component has any
information that could be described as "a documentation module
containing rules for using the object-oriented programming
component to exchange data between the user computer and the
provider computer." The component management server (CMS) can
detect requests for different types of components, such as COM,
Java RMI, and CORBA objects, and redirect them to the component
registry (col. 8, line 64 to col. 9, line 6) and, thus, knows how
to interface with different objects (e.g., col. 9, lines 7-31).
However, we do not find a documentation module disclosed or
suggested in the portion of Whitehead relied on by the examiner.
The rejection of claims 1-25 based on this logic is reversed.
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