Appeal No. 1997-1238
Application 08/169,570
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 29, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention relates to a method and system for
indicating dynamic data links in a graphic user interface.
Most graphic user interfaces allow applications to establish
dynamic data links for exchanging data between documents.
Appellants disclose on page 1 of the specification that figure
1 shows an example of a pictorial representation of documents
in which dynamic data exchanges may be provided using dynamic
data links. When a user changes values in spreadsheet docu-
ment 10, the corresponding changes are immediately made in
word processing document 12 and graphing software document 14.
On page 4 of the specification, Appellants disclose that there
is a need for a visual representation of this connection
information to enable the user to foresee how the changes in
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