Appeal No. 2002-1952
Application No. 09/071,373
selection and interaction with the programs (col. 1, lines 25-
32). Florin further describes a remote control for communicating
with a transceiver that includes a number of user selectable
interactive functions such as, among others, a mark button and a
jump button (Figs. 5a and 5b, col. 3, lines 9-16). The programs
that are listed by using list button 138, may be marked by mark
button 142 for setting reminders, recalling or switching between
programs (col. 12, lines 6-12 and col. 17, lines 31-42). The
user may then switch among the programs that were marked by the
mark button by pressing jump button 132 (col. 12, lines 12-20).
Therefore, Florin’s interactive system is incapable of setting
reminders at the same time a broadcast program is displayed and
performs the mark and jump functions only when a program listing
is displayed.
Kelly, on the other hand relates to a system for marking a
number of TV broadcast events selected by a viewer and storing a
set of data associated with each selected broadcast, which are
later transmitted to an on-line database (col. 1, lines 54-64).
As depicted in Figure 1, Kelly provides a system for marking
broadcast events that retrieves the associated information from
on-line service 60 (col. 2, lines 37-44) and allows the viewer to
“bookmark” a set of TV events as they are being broadcast (col.
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