Appeal No. 2005-1431
Application 09/442,070
embedding (OLE) facilities to create and manipulate the compound documents. Col. 8, ll. 47-
50.11
Figure 3 shows a compound document which is similar to the compound document
depicted in Figure 1 and in which the spreadsheet object is described as an embedded object.
Col. 8, ll. 25-26. Word treats embedded data as simple bitmaps that Word displays with a BitBlt
operation when rendering the compound document on an output device. Col. 2, ll. 3-6. The
main window 301 of the Word display, which shows the compound document after it has been
opened by Word, includes: (a) a title bar 302 reading "Microsoft Word - VAC1.DOC"; (b) a
menu bar 303 with the standard Word menu groups (File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools,
Table, Window, and Help); and (c) a client window 304, which includes the native text of the
document as well as the embedded Excel spreadsheet object 305 and the embedded scheduling
object (unnumbered). Col. 8, ll. 3-14. It appears that any embedded and linked objects (e.g., the
Excel spreadsheet object) are displayed automatically whenever Word is used to open the
compound document.
11 OLE is defined as follows in Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary 278 (2d ed. 1994):
OLE . . . ; acronym for object linking and embedding, a way to transfer and share
information among applications. When an object (such as an image file created
with a paint program) is linked to a compound document (such as a spreadsheet or
a document created with a word-processing program), the document contains only
a reference to the object; any changes made to the contents of a linked object will
be seen in the compound document. When an object is embedded in a compound
document, the document contains a copy of the object; any changes to the
contents of the original object will not be seen in the compound document unless
the embedded object is updated.
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