Appeal No. 96-2021
Application 08/004,016
graphically displaying in association with said at least
one hypertext link indicator within said hypertext document a
marker indicating a previous display of said additional unit of
information;
selectively displaying said additional unit of
information within said display in response to a selection of
said hypertext link indicator by a user of said data processing
system; and
selectively displaying utilization data indicating a date
and time of a first utilization by said user with respect to said
additional unit of information within an information window
within said display in response to a selection of said marker by
a user of said data processing system, wherein said utilization
data may be visually accessed by a user without display of said
additional unit of information.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Nielsen, “The Art of Navigating Through Hypertext,”
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 33, No. 3 (March 1990), pages
297-310.
Claims 29, 30, 34, 35, 39 and 40 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness the examiner offers
Nielsen taken alone.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the
examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on
appeal, the rejection advanced by the examiner and the evidence
of obviousness relied upon by the examiner as support for the
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