Appeal No. 96-0303
Application 08/056,718
This is an appeal from the final rejection of Claims 1
and 5-7, which constitute all the claims remaining in the
application.
We reverse.
Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. Data storage apparatus, comprising:
memory means for storing in encoded form a plurality of data
items each comprising one or more characters,
a user interface including a display and a keyboard having a
plurality of keys, each key having two or more characters
associated therewith, wherein in one data entry mode a first
character associated with one of the keys is selected by
pressing the respective key once, and a second character
associated with the key is selected by pressing the respective
key twice, said first and second characters being alphabet
characters, each of said keys additionally having a numeric
character associated therewith and, in a further data entry
mode, the numeric character associated with one of the keys is
selected by pressing the respective key once, and in a data
retrieval mode the individual characters of a data item to be
searched are entered by pressing only once for each character
the respective key having the desired character associated
therewith, the data storage apparatus being adapted to show on
the display a data item stored in encoded form in the memory
means which corresponds with one of the possible combinations
of characters associated with the sequence of keys pressed in
the data retrieval mode,
means for converting each data item stored in encoded form in
the memory means into a numeric version wherein the component
alphabetic characters of the data item are converted into
respective numeric characters according to the correspondence
of numeric and alphabetic characters associated with the
respective keys, and
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