Appeal No. 2004-1201
Application No. 09/051,118
accessing hyperkinks using a command based interface in light of Kogan’s
explicit disclosure of “most frequently” using a mouse (i.e., a non-
command based interface) for selecting an anchor.
Moreover, Kogan fails to remedy Dolan’s deficiency of failing to teach or
suggest assigning respective different identifiers (i.e., assigning unique
identifiers to located links) for display to a user. While Kogan discloses a
system which generates and assigns anchor identifiers 591a-595a to
anchors, anchor identifiers 591a-595a are not presented to the user.
Similarly, link IDs 610 (i.e., 1 or 2) in hyperlink table 600 (Fig. 6) are note
presented to the user. Anchor identifiers 591a-595a and link Ids 610
merely enable the system to internally link between various tales of the
system. None of them are presented to the user (See, e.g., col. 7, lines
21-42). While the link names (“South Co. Route” or “Relative Of”)
disclosed in hyperlink table 600 may be presented to the user, these link
names are note uniquely assigned to each of a plurality of links. For
example, Kogan explicitly teaches “As shown in the example above (FIG.
3), these anchors participate in the hyperlink 311 labeled “South Col
Route’”. (See col. 7, lines 59-61). The same link name “South Col Route” is
therefore shared among three different anchors and therefore does not
form different respective identifiers uniquely assigned to each of a plurality
of links for presentation to a user. Accordingly, selection in Kogan’s system
is therefore necessarily executed using a pointing device, not a command-
based interface. It is also clear that the link name is note assigned by the
system, but assigned by a human editor. For example, col. 9, lines 36-38
of Kogan states “… the system prompts the user for all necessary
information, e.g., hyperlink name at steps 1003 and 1004.”
On the other hand, the examiner’s brief remarks are contained
in only a single paragraph at the bottom of page 25 of the answer
responding to these assertions by the appellants. Essentially, the examiner
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