Appeal No. 2001-0374
Application No. 08/971,255
OPINION
With respect to the rejection of claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10,
13, 15 and 16 over Nagai and Pitchaikani, Appellants argue that
the changeable colors of the displayed node in Nagai, as equated
by the Examiner to transient displays, at best, would represent a
transient value of a fixed attribute of the node (brief, page 4).
Appellants point out that Nagai neither discloses transient
display of a selected attribute nor provides for means for
selecting the attribute or the time period for its transient
display (id.). Additionally, Appellants argue that Pitchaikani
merely discloses that the stored values corresponding to
attributes of network objects may be accessed and displayed in a
standard pop-up window (brief, pages 4 & 5). Appellants further
assert that Pitchaikani provides no teaching or suggestion for
modifying Nagai and displaying the objects of a network and the
transient displaying of their attributes for a defined selected
time period (brief, page 5).
In response to Appellants’ arguments, the Examiner asserts
that Nagai provides for displaying a selected object attribute as
a distinct color according to the status value corresponding to
that object (answer, page 12). The Examiner, however, recognizes
that the user interactive means for selecting the attribute to be
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