Appeal No. 2007-0369
Application No. 09/439,626
INVENTION
The invention is directed to a system for ordering consumer items
which contain many options (e.g. a computer, with options concerning
installed components). The system makes use of an interface that allows the
user to select options; once the user selects an option, the interface updates
the display of other options to indicate which are available and unavailable
based upon the prior selection. See pages 4 and 5 of Appellants’
specification. Claim 29 is representative of the invention and is reproduced
below:
29. A computer-implemented ordering system, comprising:
an interface adapted to provide a representation of a consumer
item and an option associated with the consumer item; and
a presentation module adapted to provide a real-time preview
representation of the consumer item updated with the option in
response to a user clicklessly positioning a cursor over an icon
corresponding to the option, the presentation module adapted to
indicate to the user unavailability of at least one other option
associated with the consumer item based on the update to the
consumer item.
REFERENCES
The references relied upon by the Examiner are:
Fisher US 6,331,858 B2 Dec. 18, 2001
(effective filing date Jun. 2, 1998)
Taylor, “Java Script Image Rollovers”, web page article1,
Webmonkey, Dec. 4, 1996
1 webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/html/96/49/index21.html
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