Appeal No. 1999-2607
Application 08/826,618
the personal character, that are also used in the shell.";
col. 8, lines 17-21: "System services that are provided as part
of the services 26 draw the speech balloon at the request of an
application 28. The contents of the speech balloon (i.e., the
text and controls contained therein) are the responsibility of
the application."). Thus, even if some program interfaces take
up the entire workspace as argued by Appellants (although this is
not described by Linnett), at least some objects bring up
two-dimensional user interfaces (the balloons associated with the
personal characters) that do not take up the whole screen. For
example, figure 3 shows the interface for a gardening application
program with part of the room visible.
However, we find no suggestion at the locations in Linnett
noted by the Examiner, or elsewhere in Linnett, that the user can
navigate away from the selected object in the three-dimensional
workspace while the two-dimensional image remains active for user
input. That is, while the three-dimensional workspace remains
visible in back of the speech balloons and other parts of the
two-dimensional interface (e.g., figure 3), there is no
indication or suggestion that the user can navigate away while
the application interface is open. Although the cellular
telephone object described at column 13, lines 9-17, follows the
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