Ex parte HERROD - Page 7




          Appeal No. 96-4029                                                          
          Application 08/386,604                                                      



          Therefore, we find that Appellant's claims recite a process or              
          an apparatus which creates a list of modified graphic orders                
          which allows for processing nonoverlapping portions of the                  
          first window in one step without having to override any of the              
          lower priority windows.                                                     
                    Upon a closer review of Anthias, we find Anthias                  
          teaches the process of overriding the lower priority windows.               
          In column 1, lines 48 through 62, Anthias teaches that the                  
          prior art creates a composite display refresh buffer so that                
          the system can display multiple tasks.  Anthias teaches that                
          the prior art maintains each task as being independent of the               
          other and each task occupies nonoverlapping space in the                    
          memory.  In column 4,                                                       
          line 66, through column 5, line 20, Anthias teaches that their              
          invention relates to the maintaining of a current screen save               
          area, directly equivalent to the screen matrix of the prior                 
          art referred to in Figures 1 and 2.  In column 7, lines 37                  


          through 45, Anthias points out the problem of reconstructing                



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