Appeal No. 2002-0364
Application No. 08/951,812
(a) creating a reference-based association relating first
and second classes by specifying a reference attribute in the
first class corresponding to the second class, wherein the
reference attribute in the first class includes a type and
cardinality;
(b) instantiating one or more objects from the first class
and one or more objects from the second class; and
(c) associating one or more of the objects of the first
class to one or more objects of the second class using the
reference attribute, wherein the type included in the reference
attribute indicates that only objects instantiated from the
second class can be connected to the objects instantiated from
the first class and the cardinality included in the reference
attribute indicates how many objects from the second class can be
connected to the objects of the first class, thereby maintaining
consistency between the classes and the objects in order to
provide an exact execution behavior for the objects instantiated
from the classes.
The examiner relies on the following references:
James Martin, Principles of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
(The James Martin Books, 1993 Prentice-Hall, Inc.) (Martin)
Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++ (1994 Addison-
Wesley Publishing Co.) (Stroustrup)
Rational Rose C++ version 4 (1996 Rational Software Corp.)
Rational Rose C++ 4.0 contains a document set containing the
following documents:
• Round Trip Engineering with Rational Rose/C++ (Rat C++)
• Using Rational Rose 4.0 (Rat-UR)
• Extensibility Guide (Rat-EG)
• UML, Boock & OMT Quick Reference for Rational Rose 4.0
(Rat-QR)
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