Appeal 2007-0226
Application 09/823,866
Content of Schmidt and Konrad
Schmidt describes "wrapper facades" whose purpose is "to
encapsulate low-level functions and data structures with object-oriented
(OO) class interfaces" (Schmidt, p. 1 under "Introduction") for use in
networking applications (Schmidt, p. 3 under "Problem" and "Solution").
"The Functions are existing low-level functions and data structures that
provide a cohesive service." Page 4 § 2.6. "The Wrapper Facade is a set of
one or more classes that encapsulate the Functions and their associated data
structures. The Wrapper Facade provides methods that forward client
invocations to one or more of the low-level Functions." Id. Either the
functions or the wrapper facade can be considered to be "objects." The
implementation applies reusable components from the ACE framework.
"ACE provides a rich set of reusable C++ wrappers and framework
components that perform common communication software tasks across a
wide range of OS platforms." Page 4 § 2.8. Thus, the ACE framework
corresponds to "means for using a component framework to enable the
communication of the at least two objects." Schmidt provides an example of
a logging server handling connection requests and logging record requests
sent by clients to a client connection endpoint called a "socket handle,"
which is a port at a certain IP address. Page 1 § 2.2. Since the wrapper
facade is used at the client and the logging server, and because there is
communication across a wide range of OS platforms using the ACE
framework, there is "object to object communication" across a network.
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