Appeal No. 97-3660
Application 08/055,802
transaction record is shown in p. 37 under Temporal
databases.” The examiner has not pointed to any disclosure in
Snodgrass for comparing the fields of a second record which
answers a query from the user with the fields of a first
record already on display. Accordingly, the differences
between Snodgrass and the appellant’s claimed invention are
more than those recognized by the examiner.
With respect to Risberg, the examiner stated (answer at
page 4):
Risberg col. 39 Mode Menu shows displaying
difference fields overlaid on corresponding data
fields with distinct attribute in an analogous art
for the purpose of highlighting changes in time
sensitive data. It would have been obvious to a
person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the
invention was made to apply Risberg’s displaying
difference fields overlaid on corresponding data
fields with distinct attribute to Snodgrass because
of Risberg’s taught advantages of highlighting
changes in time sensitive data. (Emphasis in
original.)
The cited portion of Risberg concerns the display of
“real time data” with continuous update capability. Updated
new versions of the same data are continuously received while
the older version is on display, comparison is made between
the old version and the new version to determine those
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