Appeal No. 96-0023
Application 07/958,046
Upon our review of Hitchens and Thalimer, we fail to find
that these references implicitly teach an historical data file
in which stored historical data related to process attributes
underlying each of the plurality of process elements for a
plurality of points in time, a mask data file including
information which relates the historical data to corresponding
process elements in at least one graphical representation and
a data processor to produce a combined display of at least one
graphical representation with process attributes underlying at
least one of the plurality of process components for a
selected point of time. In particular, we fail to find that
Thalimer implicitly teaches displaying data for selected data
points for a selected point of time or that Hitchens
implicitly teaches a mask data file that is a data structure
that defines the structure records in the historical data file
to allow the display of process attributes of a process
component for a selected point in time.
Hitchens teaches in column 1, lines 28-35, that the
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