Appeal No. 95-3744
Application 08/084,838
scrolling separately in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction on a display screen. The
instant invention provides an object as part of the window which can be dragged in any direction
and the contents of the window will be scrolled in that direction.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of two-dimensionally scrolling data in a client area of a window on a user
interface of a data processing system, comprising the steps of:
a) providing an object included as a part of said window, said object occupying a home
position;
b) allowing a user to move said object in a composite direction from said home position,
said composite direction comprising a first directional component and a second directional
component, said second directional component being orthogonal to said first directional
component; and
c) scrolling said data in said client area in said composite direction.
The examiner cites the following references in the examiner’s answer:
Yanker 5,075,673 Dec. 24, 1991
Steele et al. (Steele) 5,169,342 Dec. 08, 1992
Meier et al. (Meier) 5,196,838 Mar. 23, 1993
Paal et al. (Paal) 5,263,134 Nov. 16, 19932
(filed July 30, 1992)
Apple (Canadian Patent) 2,059,893 Sep. 13, 1992
Microsoft® Windows User’s Guide (Windows), copyright 1990-1992, pages 386-388.
TM
2Although Paal is listed in the examiner’s answer as prior art relied upon, none of the
rejections formulated by the examiner makes reference to Paal in the statement of the rejection or
in the analysis. We will have further comments on Paal at the end of this decision.
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