Appeal No. 2003-1895
Application 08/819,536
Invention
The invention relates to a database system capable of
storing a variety of pieces of information without regard to the
specific structure of the information or how it is stored. See
page 1 of Appellant’s specification. As shown in Figure 1, the
storage system 10 includes a storage 12, an object catalog 14
contained in the storage 12, and a storage manager 20. The
object catalog is an object itself which is maintained in
permanent storage. See pages 7 and 8 of Appellant’s
specification. The storage 12 contains one or more collections
of object instances 01, 02, . . ., 0n, each collection being of a
type defined by a class specifier found in the object catalog 14.
See page 8 of Appellant’s specification. The operations
performed by the storage manager 20 are the basic three which are
to retrieve or remove an object instance from storage 12, or to
return an object instance to storage. In addition, collateral
activity can be associated with one or another of these
operations when requested by a particular application. See
page 10 of Appellant’s specification. Figure 3 shows the
contents of the object catalog 14. See page 11 of Appellant’s
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