Appeal No. 2003-1895
Application 08/819,536
specification. Figure 4 illustrates the handler list 26
associated with the savings class specifier and implementation
code. Analysts may associate with a particular instance class.
Also, the handler list 26 contains a list of collateral activity
associated with at least one object instant collection. See
page 12 of Appellant’s specification.
Appellant’s claim 1 is illustrative of Appellant’s
claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A database system for maintaining a store of one or
more object instance collections each of an object oriented class
type, comprising:
an object catalog containing for each class type a
class specification that includes one or more attributes and
member functions;
a database management facility for storing and
retrieving the object instances, the database management facility
operating to receive a request to retrieve an object instance
contained in a one of the object instance collections to first
search the object catalog for the corresponding class
specification; and
a list of collateral activity associated with at least
the one object instance collection, the list identifying at least
one collateral activity that is performed when the database
management facility operates to retrieve an object instance from
the one object instance collection in response to a received
request.
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