Appeal No. 96-1928
Application 07/504,679
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of what appears to us to be claims 1-3, 5-7,
9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 33, 43, 54, 55, 71,
72, 75, 76, 79-91, 95, 98-117, and 120-142, 144, 145 and 147-
158.
Representative claim 95 is reproduced below:
95. In a process executed in a computer with a data
display screen and strings of alphanumeric characters stored
in one or more files, a method for displaying the strings in
an area of the data display screen allocated to the process
for display, said allocated area containing a first display
area comprised of a plurality of lines, each said string
having a plurality of fields of alphanumeric characters,
comprising the steps of:
(a) fetching first and second strings from said one or
more files;
(b) simultaneously displaying on the data display screen
portions of a plurality of preselected fields of the first
string at a specified position on said lines so that portions
of a plurality of fields are displayed on one line of the
first display area, further wherein only one instance of each
portion of a field is displayed within said first display area
of the allocated area and portions of preselected fields of
the second string within a second display area within the
allocated area wherein at least one character is removed from
one of said fields of the first string to generate one of said
portions of the first string and,
(c) in response to input from an input device displaying
within said allocated display area all of the characters of
said field from which a character was removed while
maintaining the display of at least some portions of said
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