Appeal No. 2002-0275
Application No. 09/215,752
change information is acquired from the parts object manager 102 and the attribute
information owned by the type definition is changed accordingly. Col. 9, ll. 37-64.
Maruyama may be viewed as inherently describing prompting a user to input
data values corresponding to object attributes, as when the user may initially define an
object. As a different, but express, example of prompting for input, Maruyama
describes a procedure for an attribute change at column 7, line 61 through column 8,
line 37 (Fig. 10), wherein a user inputs information including an “attribute value” (col. 7,
l. 66). Maruyama’s disclosed procedure for attribute change appears closer to the
claimed subject matter than the portion of the reference the rejection relies upon. In any
event, in the description deemed by the examiner to relate to querying and receiving a
meta definition of a data object there is no disclosure, express or inherent, of prompting
a user to input data values corresponding to the object attributes. The user only enters
information to identify the type definition object that is to be restructured in the
database. The data values corresponding to the object attributes are acquired from
parts object manager 102 (step 1004 of Fig. 13), rather than as a result of prompting for
user input.
We therefore agree with appellants that the combinations set forth by
independent claims 1, 13, and 19 have not been shown in Maruyama. We thus do not
sustain the section 102 rejection of those claims and their depending claims; i.e., claims
1, 2, 5, 13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 30, and 31.
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