Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1-37.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to conversion of text
from one "text domain" to another "text domain" using a
"conversion gesture" in a stylus-based computer system.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method of converting characters from one text
domain to another text domain in a stylus-based computer
in which information may be entered by interaction of a
stylus with a display screen, the method comprising the
following steps:
(a) identifying text that has been selected on the
display screen;
(b) determining whether the stylus has been used to
enter a conversion gesture for converting the selected
text on the display screen from a source text domain to a
destination text domain;
(c) determining the source text domain of the
selected text;
(d) determining an appropriate destination text
domain to which the selected text is to be converted; and
(e) replacing at least a portion of the selected
text on the display screen with text from the destination
text domain determined in step d.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
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