Appeal No. 2002-0119
Application No. 09/015,713
searched by a user. By accessing a table of stored entries, a
main portion and an associated portion of an index entry having
anchor tags displaying the text in long-name and short-name
fields, respectively, are formed (specification, page 5).
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. In a computer system, a method of forming a hyperlinked
index of computer-readable pages of information, comprising steps
of:
accessing a table of stored table entries, each table
entry having a long-name field for storing a long name of a
first item, a short-name field for storing a short name of
the first item and a related-items field for storing a name
identifying a second item related to the first item; and
for each accessed table entry, forming a main portion
of an index entry having an anchor tag displaying the text
appearing in said long-name field, and forming an associated
portion of the index entry having an anchor tag displaying
the text appearing in the short-name field of the table
entry of the second item referred to in the related-item
field.
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Hamilton et al. (Hamilton) 5,758,186 May 26, 1998
Schumacher et al. (Schumacher) 5,933,841 Aug. 3, 1999
(filed May 17, 1996)
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Schumacher in view of Hamilton.
We make reference to the answer (Paper No. 11, mailed April
9, 2001) for the Examiner’s reasoning and to the appeal brief
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