Appeal 2007-3554
Application 09/887,602
the steps of automatically copying the changed range of cells onto a buffer,
automatically determining the set of ranges of cells to which the changed
range of cells belongs to, automatically identifying the ranges of cells
belonging to the set, and automatically pasting the content of the buffer in
each of the identified range of cells belonging to the set (Specification 1 and
6).
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and it reads as
follows:
1. A method for persistently self-replicating multiple ranges of cells
through a copy and paste operation, in a multi dimensional spreadsheet
comprising a plurality of cells having content and identified by a cell address
along each dimension, a range of cells comprising one or a plurality of cells,
the method comprising the steps of:
defining a set of ranges of cells, each range of cells having the same
size, and at least two of said ranges having different addresses relative to the
top leftmost cell A1 of the respective page on which each of said ranges are
located; and
each time the content of a range of cells belonging to said set is
changed, automatically performing a self-replication operation, said self-
replication operation comprising the steps of:
automatically copying the changed range of cells onto a buffer;
automatically determining the set of ranges of cells to which the
changed range of cells belongs to;
automatically identifying the ranges of cells belonging to said set; and
automatically pasting the content of the buffer in each of identified
range of cells belonging to said set.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
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