Appeal No. 95-4325
Application 08/006,957
in claim 6. Rather, the operator would be changing the displayed
location of the data to merely correct the data.
We note that Appellant’s claim 6 recites a “tool specifying
method in an NC automatic programming system for specifying a
tool by displaying tool data ... comprising the steps of: ...
rearranging and displaying said tool data in accordance with said
changed criteria.” Tanaka teaches in column 5, lines 19-60, that
the tools are to be displayed in their machining order as
illustrated in Figure 8. Tanaka further teaches that, as shown
in Figure 8, a list of various parameters of the selected tools
are displayed. Tanaka teaches in column 5, lines 68, that the
parameters are initially set to zero as shown in Figure 8 and the
values for the parameters are entered by the operator key
switches and these entered values are shown in Figure 10. In
column 6, lines 1-3, Tanaka simply teaches that the values for
the parameter may be changed by the operator when the values
change due to wear, etc.
From these teachings, we fail to find any teaching that the
parameters are rearranged and displayed in accordance to the
changed values. The values are simply updated in the particular
field and remain in that field as shown in Figure 8 and Figure
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