Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
short descriptive pictograms, and may enter text strings 122 and
an associated ink region 124 (see Figure 8). It is this ink
region that is stated at the top of column 8 to be totally
unconstrained, giving the user the ability to draw a picture, a
doodle, a signature, a word written in any language and so forth.
Finally, it is stated at the end of the paragraph at the top of
column 8 that this same paradigm is utilized in the other video
user environments other than the user identification capability
in Figures 8 and 9.
It is thus clear that the reference indicates the use of a
multimedia identifier selectable by the user which corresponds in
some manner to an entertainment selection already made and, where
the multimedia identifier is selectable, to display entertainment
system data about the selection retrievable from a second source
among a plurality of different sources. The second or different
source clearly is the user hand-held device in this case who
enters data in an informational format retrievable by the device.
Likewise, in accordance with the television schedule
presentation element 146 in Figure 10, reference is made to
Figures 12 and 13. There, the TV schedule in Figure 12 is
presented to the viewer in the form of textual data from an
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