Appeal No. 96-2616
Application 08/280,271
examiner cites APS in view of Inoue with regard to claims 1 through 4, adding Wroblewski to this
combination with regard to claim 5.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective positions of appellant
and the examiner.
OPINION
We reverse.
APS is representative of the conventional systems wherein searched words or phrases are
highlighted and a user moves through screens or windows looking for the highlighted words or phrases.
The instant invention improves upon the prior art by keeping the highlighted words or phrases
fixed horizontally and vertically while displaying lines immediately preceding and succeeding the selected
word or phrase or, as claimed, “the selected line,” in a physical position above and below the selected
line. Thus, the instant invention provides a method for maintaining eye contact with a line of text as the
display is changed to show the line in its context.
Instant independent claim 1 includes this improvement by reciting:
(c) displaying selected lines immediately preceding and
immediately succeeding the selected line in the same data file in
physical position above and below, respectively, the selected line
and said key word, wherein the text of the selected line retains its
physical position, both horizontally and vertically, on the physical
display screen.
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