Appeal No. 1997-2862
Application 08/069,052
manual intervention being required. In column 5, line
4 through column 6, line 16, Mauney teaches that figure 2 shows a flow chart of a GPS capture
program 30 executing on the GPS computer 14. In particular, Mauney discloses that step 46 allows
the GPS data to be converted and sent to the GIS database by emulating a digitizer. Mauney also
discloses in column 4, line 62 through column 5, line 3, an alternate embodiment in which both the GPS
capture program and the GIS database program could be run on a single computer using a multi-
tasking operating system. We find that the Mauney teaching of this alternate embodiment would only
suggest to those skilled in the art that the GIS database program which is run on computer 22 shown in
figure 1 and the GPS capture program which is run on GPS computer 14 may be run on a single
computer using multi-tasking techniques. We fail to find that the alternate embodiment would lead
those skilled in the art to modify either the GIS database program or the GPS capture program.
From the Mauney teaching, we fail to find that Mauney teaches or suggests to those skilled in
the art that a dummy GUI operation be inserted on the top of the TTY control operation in a first thread
to suspend TTY control so that the main program is controlled by the GUI operation as claimed in
Appellant's claims 11 and 13-20.
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