Appeal No. 2004-1082
Application No. 09/106,166
appellants merely point to page 9 of the instant specification,
wherein it is stated:
The three types of view objects respond to
notifications that data has changed locally. The
purpose of all three types of view objects is to compute some function
rendering) of some or all of the model objects 150
bound to them.
The three types differ in when each receives
notifications that data has changed: optimistic view
objects 113 receive notifications as soon as the data
has changed locally; pessimistic view objects 110
receive notifications only when the distributed sites
have agreed there are no conflicts among them in the
changes to the data. According to the present
invention, adaptive view objects 116 may receive
notifications as an optimistic view object would or a
pessimistic view object would and may dynamically
switch between the two notification behaviors.
We find nothing within this passage indicating some
particular definition of the terms, “optimistic notification
mode” and “pessimistic notification mode,” as claimed. Since
appellants have been unable to point to a specific definition of
these terms in the specification, and we find it difficult to
ascribe any meaning to these terms different from the
confirmations received in Alonso regarding optimistic and
pessimistic operating modes, we will accept the examiner’s
interpretation of Alonso’s operating modes to include the claimed
notification modes.
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