Appeal No. 1997-0411 Page 3
Application No. 08/441,658
function and a display function, said setting method
comprising the steps of:
categorizing a plurality of basic menu
items based upon either usage or purpose of said
document;
displaying said categorized plurality of
basic menu items;
designating one of said categorized
plurality of basic menu items for said document;
simultaneously displaying a plurality of
document information selecting menu items which
correspond to said designated one of said
categorized basic menu items, each document
information selecting menu item indicates a
combination of paper size, paper direction and
printing direction suitable to the usage or purpose
of said document;
designating one of said document
information selecting menu items for said document;
and
performing an operation of setting paper
size, paper direction and printing direction on said
document according to said designated one of said
document information selecting menu items.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Weiner 4,862,390 Aug. 29,
1989
M. Morris Mano (Mano), Computer System Architecture, pp. 264-
266,
(2d ed., New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliff,
1982).
BetterWorking Eight-in-One, (Cambridge, MA, Spinnaker Software
Corp., 1989).
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