Appeal No. 96-2275
Application 08/010,063
etc. The presentation window associated with all of this is
depicted at screen page 4 when the rightmost category “small
talk” has within it another sub-category of “company.st” which is
further depicted at the bottom of this screen shown at screen
page 4. Separately, we note that the program manager help index
depicted on screen page 24 has laid over it a glossary page
depicted at screen page 27. Thus, contrary to appellants’
arguments there are a plurality of what the user may consider as
index functions.
As to the appellants’ claim Group IV, such as claim 9, the
examiner’s position at page 13 of the answer is persuasive. The
claimed scroll bar appears to be depicted in the two leftmost
sub-windows at screen page 4 with, as noted by the examiner, the
use of the icon representing a human hand with a finger extended
as a pointer as the claimed “slider”, with both the scroll bar
and slider vertically slidable to index individually the
alphabetically organized categories and sub-categories of
information in the respective sub-windows. Additionally, the use
of the scroll bars, separately actuatable by the use of the
cursor actuated by a mouse in a conventional manner, would
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