Appeal No. 94-3636
Application 07/889,660
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 1 and 5-14, all of the claims pending in the application. Claim 2-4 have been
cancelled. Pursuant to a remand entered August 1, 1995 (Paper No. 18), to consider the rejection
under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in view of proposed guidelines which issued as Examination Guidelines for
Computer-Related Inventions, 1184 Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark Office 87 (March 26, 1996), the
section 101 rejection has been withdrawn (Supp. Examiner's Answer entered April 12, 1996, Paper
No. 19).
The invention is directed to a method and system for searching and displaying results of a
string search in a pen-based computer system. As shown in figure 2, the computer has a screen 38
and a plurality of input buttons 23 including a number of dedicated function buttons, such as WHO
(telephone book), WHAT (to-do list), and WHEN (a calender). These buttons represent
corresponding files, where each file has one or more records contained therein. A FIND button is
used to initiate a search for information. When the FIND button is depressed, a find line 56 appears
for entering a string of characters to be searched. Figure 3 shows the screen after the search string
"electrician" is entered and searched. Each button has a respective triangular-shaped indicator 60,
62, 64 located on the screen adjacent to a respective function button with the number in the indicator
corresponding to the number of files found (hits) for the search string. Depressing one of the buttons
presents the file entries containing the search string.
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