Appeal No. 2002-0857
Application No. 09219,876
predetermined amount of time, a screen saver image is displayed
on the computer screen. This is merely a recitation of the
operation of a conventional screen saver.
While the screen saver image is displayed and a visiting
party hits the “enter” key, a note-taker user interface is
displayed [Franklin, column 8, lines 35-40]. This note-taker
user interface is a “first input window.” Thus, Franklin
discloses “when the computer screen displays said screen saver
image and when input is detected from an input device, displaying
a first input window on the computer screen,” as claimed.
However, if such is the interpretation, then Franklin would
not disclose “when said first input window is displayed, if a
first particular input is detected, displaying a message input
window, then storing message data input while the message input
window is displayed, then displaying said screen saver image”
because the message input window of Franklin, ostensibly client
area 116, is already part of note-taker user interface 110 and
would not be displayed “when said first input window is
displayed, if a first particular input is detected...”
It is the examiner’s view that Franklin’s password dialog
window is the “first input window.” This is a reasonable
interpretation since a user or a visitor moving a mouse or
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