Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
selected, then the same selected identifier has multimedia
identifiers available to the user which retrieves information
from a second or different source representing additional
information about the same entertainment selection. The user may
choose a particular channel in Figure 11 and, for that same
selected channel, Figure 12 shows additional information from a
TV schedule source. We are unpersuaded as well by appellants'
arguments at the top of page 10 of the principal brief on appeal
that the hand drawn symbols merely represent user commands. It
is clear from the end of the abstract that the user has the
ability to completely annotate in any manner using any type of
indicia information any selectable item.
We are likewise unpersuaded by appellants' arguments at
principal brief page 14 regarding the subject matter of dependent
claim 44. At the outset, we note that the showing in Figure 12
of Lopresti compares with specification Figure 6. The depiction
of various types of data for any given program or schedule at any
given point in time for a given channel shown in this figure
clearly comprises various traits in claim 44 where the iconic
category designation clearly may be considered to be an
identifier portion indicating general types of descriptive data
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