Appeal No. 96-2865
Application No. 08/081,561
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1
through 41, all of the claims pending in the application.
The invention relates to “multimedia computer systems that
expose students to scientific principles and concepts through a
variety of multimedia interactions” (specification, page 1).
Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:
1. An apparatus for teaching science and engineering to a
user, the apparatus comprising:
a means for displaying imagery;
a means for causing a plurality of objects to be pictured on
the display means, the objects being apparatus, equipment,
devices, materials, and supplies used in science and engineering;
a means by which the user can assemble a plurality of the
objects pictured on the display means into an operating pictorial
representation of an operating experimental configuration, the
experimental configuration being characterized by a relationship
among a plurality of experimental parameters;
a means by which the user can simulate the performance of an
experiment using the pictorial representation of the experimental
configuration, an experiment being a method of measuring one of
the plurality of experimental parameters by means of the
experimental configuration, the operation of the pictorial
representation of the experimental configuration being governed
by the same relationship among the experimental parameters that
characterizes the operation of the experimental configuration.
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