Appeal No. 2003-1986
Application 09/315,200
col. 16, line 21 & Table 4; col. 35, line 33 to col. 36, line 33
& Table 9). As shown in Table 9, the search parameters can be
attributes with key/value pairs. The heading "Object Type #1"
does not have a value like "Object Type #1=ACME::VIDEOMAIL" in
Table 7, but we will assume that it does. We interpret
"ACME::VIDEOMAIL" to identify the object VIDEOMAIL within the
class ACME,2 i.e., it identifies an external object type stored
somewhere else. Assuming "ACME::VIDEOMAIL" represents true data,
the object type entries contain the implementation information
needed to activate an object of that particular type and are not
meta-data attributes "wherein the meta-data value field describes
the associated true-data attribute," as claimed, because they do
not describe the data "ACME::VIDEOMAIL." When the implementation
repository receives a request from an object broker for
implementation information for an object of a particular type,
the search parameters are used to select an implementation
appropriate for the type of hardware, operating system, and other
implementation preferences required for the particular object
operation, and the information passed back from the
implementation repository includes that required to access the
2 In object-oriented programming languages like C++, the
"::" operator is called the "binary scope resolution operator."
The class name and a double colon (e.g., Student::) are prepended
to each of the functions names. This prefix is a tag that tells
the compiler that you are referring to something inside the
Student class.
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