Ex parte PALMER et al. - Page 6




          Appeal No. 96-2275                                                          
          Application 08/010,063                                                      


          that there is at least one identifiable access window associated            
          with at least one function by some name where the access window             
          has at least two portions or regions therein which broadly relate           
          information in the hierarchy of displaying initially headings               
          that correspond to a set of operations and then phrases that                
          correspond to a particular set of operations in the manner                  
          claimed.                                                                    
               The recited presentation window at the end of claims 1 and             
          29 on appeal is not recited in these claims to be a part of the             
          same access window, but clearly based on the disclosure the                 
          presentation window is a separate successively presented window             
          to the user.  For example, the showings at screen pages 17 to 19            
          indicate a sequential showing of first two indicia categories               
          displayed in two regions of the screen in representative screen             
          page 18 with a subsequent excitation of the “help index” depicted           
          at the bottom of screen page 18 displayed in detail, one selected           
          by the user, in a separately identified “presentation screen” at            
          succeeding screen page 19.  Other “go to” categories exist as               
          depicted at screen page 18.  It is clear that the examiner is               
          correct that such succeeding presentation page, when activated by           
          the users’ selection at the bottom of screen page 18, would                 
          indicate to the user an instruction as to how to do certain                 

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