Appeal No. 1998-0414
Application 08/202,422
belonging to a trucking company,
physical attributes stored in
memory may include present
location, total capacity of
truck, percent of capacity
represented by present load, fuel
supply, distance from next drop-
off point, distance to a proposed
new pick-up point, mechanical
status of truck, number of hours
the driver has been on the road,
highway conditions between
current location and next drop-
off point, driving conditions
between next drop-off point and
proposed new pick-up point, fuel
availability between various
drop-off and pick-up points,
replacement driver availability,
and so on. At least some of
these physical attributes may be
continually changing with time as
up-dated information is supplied
to computer memory.
Thus, the Examiner has interpreted the claim
language of “graphic element data” to be such things as
displayed truck data, and the corresponding groups of
attributes to be such things as fuel supply, truck capacity,
etc. Alexander takes an additional step by displaying the
graphic element data in the form of an icon. The icon,
treated by Alexander as a visual attribute, is linked to a
physical attribute (e.g. truck fuel), for display purposes
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