Appeal No. 97-0883
Application 08/138,650
grouped as tasks and the tasks can be displayed to a user for
access and manipulation on the display. This feature is
represented in claim 1 by the recitation of a selection means
for “selecting a subset of said tasks for presentation by the
display means.” Thus, claim 1, as well as independent claim
8, recite that a selection means orders the task information
for presentation on the display means. An element for
implementing this function is not present in Weiss.
The examiner has pointed to display 160 of Weiss as
meeting the claimed display means and to column 3, lines 27-30
as meeting the claimed selection means [answer, page 3].
These portions of Weiss, however, provide no indication of
what information is presented on the display means or how the
presented information is affected by the “selection means.”
In fact, we can find no teaching or suggestion in Weiss that
information presented on the display can be controlled in any
particular manner. The “selection means” pointed to by the
examiner simply does not perform the function of that means as
recited in claims 1 and 8.
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