Appeal No. 1996-0951 Page 3
Application No. 07/880,793
20. A method for designing a graphical user
interface and generating a program to implement
user selections from said user interface, said
method comprising the steps of:
storing a multiplicity of program code blocks
corresponding to respective functions;
displaying a multiplicity of graphical features
and receiving designer selections of a plurality
of said features for inclusion in said user
interface;
displaying for each of said plurality of
features a list of messages for said each
feature and displaying for each of the listed
messages a list of the functions which are
consistent with said each message;
in response to designer selection of one of the
listed messages and one of the listed functions
for said each feature, generating a program
based on the program code block corresponding to
said one function to implement said one function
upon user selection of said each feature;
displaying said one message in conjunction with
said each feature in said user interface; and
user selecting of features from said user
interface.
The reference relied on by the patent examiner in
rejecting the claims follows:
Kodosky et al. 4,914,568 Apr. 3, 1990.
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