Appeal No. 96-2021
Application 08/004,016
constituted all the claims remaining in the application. An
amendment after final rejection was filed on April 24, 1995 and
was entered by the examiner. This amendment amended claims 29
and 34, cancelled claims 31-33 and 36-38, and added claims 39 and
40. Consequently, this appeal is directed to the rejection of
claims 29, 30, 34, 35, 39 and 40.
The claimed invention pertains to a method and apparatus
for providing hypertext link services within a data processing
system. More particularly, the invention is directed to the
display of a marker along with a hypertext link indicator which
indicates whether the information associated with the hypertext
link indicator has previously been displayed. The date and time
of a previous utilization of the information associated with the
link indicator can be displayed by actuating the marker on the
display without having to display the information associated with
the link indicator.
Representative claim 29 is reproduced as follows:
29. A method of providing hypertext link services within
a data processing system having a display, said method comprising
the data processing implemented steps of:
displaying a hypertext document within said display;
graphically displaying at least one hypertext link
indicator within said hypertext document, said hypertext link
indicator indicating an existence of an additional unit of
information;
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