Appeal No. 2004-0559
Application No. 09/276,382
there is no loss of event notification to a consumer object if the consumer object is off
line for modification. See page 4 of appellants originally filed specification.
Claim 1 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
1. In a computer controlled object oriented programming system having at
least one event supplier object and a plurality of event consumer objects, an
event notification channel object comprising:
means for transmitting events from said supplier object,
a plurality of filter object, each respectively associated with one of said
plurality of consumer objects for passing only selected transmitted events to said
one consumer object, and
a plurality of proxy consumer objects, each associated with one of said
consumer objects and between said filter object and said supplier object,
whereby said proxy consumer object may receive supplier transmitted events on
behalf of its associated consumer object.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Appellants’ Admitted Prior Art (APA)
Cohen 5,881,315 March 9, 1999
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 through 14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over
APA in view of Cohen. Throughout the opinion we make reference to the brief (filed
March 13, 2003) and the answer (dated September 15, 2003) for the respective details
thereof.
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