Appeal No. 1997-1274
Application 08/431,397
is separately displayed on the user interface; e.g., figure 5g
shows the object category "Outline/first" and figure 5i shows
the object category "Outline/second." Each "FORMS" category
(object) has one or more "field" objects, e.g., Category 1 in
figure 3a has "!field 1" and "field 2," where the data field
is indicated by rectangles next to the field names. In Davis,
a category has all its fields displayed on the user interface,
e.g., "Outline/first" in figure 5g has fields "alpha 1,"
"beta 1," "gamma 1," and "!omega" all on the user interface.
Although we believe that one of ordinary skill in the art
would have recognized that if the list of fields (objects) was
longer, the system could scroll the field pointer 266 down the
list to fields (objects) which are not currently shown on the
interface and, thus, bring such fields (objects) to the user
interface, just as a user scrolls through a document in a word
processing program, such a finding is not part of the
rejection. When a FORM is filled out with specific
information it becomes one of the RECORDS in figure 3a.
When the TAB key is pressed to go to from a first field
(object) to a second field (object) within a category
(object), e.g., from field (object) "alpha 1" to field
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