Appeal No. 96-1343
Application 07/993,225
Claims 1-7 and 9-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Obata.
Obata discloses a method and system for controlling the
timing of the display of a guidance message on terminal
equipment, such as multi-media communication terminals. The
system includes a timer 6 for detecting the time interval between
user input operations and a skill controller 7 for maintaining
and updating a skill level corresponding to the length of a time
delay occurring before the display of a guidance message. As
explained at column 3, line 63 through column 4, line 9:
. . . [W]hen the next input operation is correctly
performed by the user within the set time, the skill
controller 7 increments the skill level by one. When
the input operation is not performed within the set
time, or the input operation is incorrectly performed,
the skill controller 7 decrements the skill level by
one. For example, when the user’s skill level is high,
the display timing of the next guidance message is
delayed to enable the user to proceed to the next
operation before displaying the next guidance message.
Therefore, since it is not necessary to display
unwanted guidance for the user, it is possible to
increase the processing speed of the terminal. On the
other hand, when the user’s skill level is low, the
display timing is made faster so that the user can be
guided to the next step, at every step.
Independent claim 1 is directed to a method of controlling a
data processing system comprising, inter alia, the steps of (a)
detecting an occurrence of a message producing action, (b)
providing a message associated with said detected message
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