Appeal No. 97-0883
Application 08/138,650
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-9, which constitute
all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a computer system
for monitoring devices in a telecommunications network. More
particularly, the invention is directed to the manipulation of
information on a display device by a user. A plurality of
tasks can be presented on the display device. A task is the
grouping of certain information regarding the status of the
tele-communications network [Specification at page 2, lines
24-26]. All the information associated with a given task can
be accessed and manipulated at one time by the user. A
selection means is provided for selecting a subset of the
tasks for presentation by the display device.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer system for monitoring a plurality of tasks
composed of one or more events to control devices in a
telecommunications network comprising:
input means for receiving said events from devices in the
telecommunications network;
2
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