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          Appeal No. 1997-1199                                                        
          Application No. 08/309,366                                                  


          of one set, the user may easily manipulate the workstation to               
          perform a desired task.  The invention is further illustrated               
          by the following claim.                                                     
               1.   A method for controlling a computer workstation to                
               display attributes of the computer workstation,                        
          comprising     the computer-implemented steps of:                           
               displaying a template area on a display, said                          
          template            area comprising a template types pane and a             
          template            pane;                                                   
                                                                                     
                    retrieving each group of attributes of the computer               
                    workstation from a database;                                      
                    storing each group of attributes in a workstation                 
                    memory;                                                           
                    selecting one group from the group of attributes for              
                    display;                                                          
                    retrieving sets of attributes from the selected                   
          group          of attributes from the workstation memory;                   
                    selecting one set from the sets of attributes for                 
                    display;                                                          
                    retrieving individual attributes of the selected set              
          of        attributes from the workstation memory;                           
                    displaying icons representing the sets of attributes              
          in        said template types pane; and                                     
                    displaying icons representing the individual                      
          attributes          of the selected set in said template pane               
          area.                                                                       



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