Appeal No. 94-3603
Application 08/001,121
final rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-36, all of the claims pending
in the application. Claim 5 has been cancelled. A related
decision has been entered in parent application 07/899,660,
Appeal No. 94-3636. We reverse.
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and system
for searching and displaying results of a string search in a
pointer-based computer system. As shown in figure 2, the
computer has a screen 42 and a keypad 24 including a number of
buttons corresponding to application programs, such as Names
(address book), Dates (calendar), and Drawer (for other
application programs). 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 dialog box 72 opens and a
string of characters to be searched can be entered on line 73.
The search can be local (limited to one application) or global
(all applications). The hits may be summarized according to
application file and number of hits as shown in figure 4.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.2
It is noted that claim 1 in the amendment received2
October 4, 1993 (Paper No. 8), has some missing language from the
global search mode subparagraph of paragraph e. This should be
corrected so that the correct claim can be printed.
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