Appeal No. 97-1504
Application No. 08/400,190
The appellant’s invention is directed to pagers that are
capable of storing and displaying multiple messages. The
objective of the invention is to provide alternative methods
for displaying the stored messages or pages of messages, which
includes sequentially viewing the multiple messages or pages
by scrolling through them, or by viewing them individually.
In furtherance of this, the claims recite various methods, all
of which involve the operation of a multiple function switch
in which the application of a single input to the switch
initiates a mode wherein the stored messages (or pages of
messages) are sequentially displayed in a free-running display
automatically carried out without further input signal from
the switch, and wherein the input of a subsequent signal to
the switch causes the cessation of the free-running mode in
favor of a manual mode in which messages (or pages) are
presented one at a time.
With regard to independent claims 1, 12 and 21 (messages
with more than one page), and 7 and 15 (messages), the
examiner has taken the position that the subject matter
recited would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in
the art in view of the teachings of Wagai and Levine.
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