Appeal No. 2003-1986
Application 09/315,200
code to be executed and the libraries to be used in activating
the object implementation (col. 14, lines 16-27). Thus, the
search parameters select an appropriate implementation and the
executable information tells how to access the code for the
object implementation The search parameters and executable
information are not meta-data attributes "wherein the meta-data
value field describes the associated true-data attribute" because
they do not describe something about the term "ACME::VIDEOMAIL."
We also agree with appellant that the search parameters are
associated with an external object and are not used for "managing
said true-data attribute according to said associated meta-data
attribute." The same observations are made about the search
parameters in Table 7. Accordingly, we find that Tables 4, 7,
and 9 of Thomas do not anticipate claim 1. Since the claims
stand or fall together, the rejection of claims 1-53 is reversed.
New ground of rejection pursuant to 36 CFR § 41.50(b)
Claims 42-47 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being
directed to nonstatutory subject matter. The claims are directed
to a "profile object." The specification states (page 17,
lines 30-35): "As used herein, the term 'object' refers to a data
structure stored in mass storage or memory accessible by a
computer that contains specified data and a set of methods or
operations that enable the object to perform operations on the
data it contains." Therefore, an object is a data structure
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