Appeal No. 96-2372
Application 08/278,676
As a final point, we note that we are aware that
Windows™ software available from Microsoft, installed on a
computer having a viewscreen for displaying a menu of items
and a pointer device in the form of a mouse for pointing at one
of a plurality of corresponding areas each associated with one
of the options displayed on the viewscreen, has for many years
had the capability, on its Program Manager display screen, of
allowing the icons therein to be arranged in any manner the user
chooses, e.g., in a non-closed, curved band wherein the icons are
arranged in an arc about an imaginary center point and the band
is defined by inner and outer imaginary concave curved lines
encompassing and containing the icon boxes and two spaced later
imaginary lines extending generally along a radius toward the
imaginary center point. Moreover, when the user saves this
particular orientation of the icons on the Program Manager
display screen by activating the "Save Settings on Exit" command,
the next time the user logs onto Windows™, the software will
display the icon options in the non-closed, curved format
previously saved by the user. Thus, we commend to the examiner a
consideration of whether a conventional PC having a mouse input
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