Appeal No. 96-2275
Application 08/010,063
operations as claimed. Additionally, the “how to” category
depicted at screen pages 7 and 8 are further selectable by the
user and are self-explanatory so that they would explain to the
user how to perform various operations. Note also screen pages
11 through 14 which indicate further “how to” separate screens
that may be selectable by the user.
Appellants’ “Group II” arguments are adequately addressed by
the examiner at the middle of page 12 of the answer. The bottom
of page 12 of the answer indicates the examiner’s responsive
arguments to the appellants’ claimed Group III arguments relating
to claim 8, which relates to an “index access function”. We are
in agreement with the examiner’s observation that there are many
“visual cues” in both the “file manager” and “search” window
portions of the document relied upon that indicate a respective
“index access function”. Certainly, the title bars are one
indicia of what the user may regard as an “index.” For example,
the file manager views in the early portions of the document
visually may be perceived by the user as indexing to the user
“drives”, indexed alphabetically. This first region to the
particular selected one shown in the middle of the page of screen
page 2, for example, indicates in this region the names of
various subdirectories and files therein in the third portion,
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