Appeal No. 2004-1365
Application No. 09/139,808
Claim 11 is representative of the invention and reproduced below:
11. A method for programming a programmable property of a
computer-implemented object, comprising the steps of:
displaying for a user, an entry form for editing at least one
programmable property of the computer-implemented object;
receiving a computer language independent functional expression
generated using the entry form for the property of the object;
parsing the computer language independent functional expression;
generating a computer interpretable function from the expression;
and
storing the function as a run-time value for the property of the
object.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Ho 5,619,708 April 8, 1997
McInerney et al. (McInerney) 5,956,479 Sep. 21, 1999
(filed Nov. 13, 1995)
Rejection at Issue
Claims 11 through 13, 18, 22, 54 through 57, 59, 62 through 65 and 67
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Ho. Claims 19, 58
and 66 rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over Ho. Claims 52, 53,
60, 61, 68, and 69 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over
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