Appeal No. 1997-0810
Application No. 08/512,072
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final
rejection of claims 1 through 4, all claims pending in this
application. The invention relates to binary data
displays, and more particularly to an adaptive cursor for
interpreting displays of grouped data segments within
unformatted groups of data bits.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method of displaying an adaptive cursor for
unformatted groups of binary data comprising the steps of:
extracting from a serial digital input signal bits
for the unformatted groups of binary data, each group forming
an ancillary block of data;
displaying a selected one of the ancillary blocks of
data in binary form;
manually positioning a marker cursor at a bit
position within the selected ancillary block of data;
determining from a stored format for the selected
ancillary block of data the bits associated with the bit
position that form a segment within the selected ancillary
block of data; and
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