Appeal No. 1998-0414
Application 08/202,422
(note column 6, lines 38-42). We agree with the Examiner that
Alexander provides a reasonable interpretation of Appellant’s
claim language.
Assuming that Alexander does not disclose
“classifying the generated graphic element data into groups
according to the attributes of the graphic data and arranging
the groups into memory according to classification” (answer-
page 4), the Examiner relies on Shimada. Shimada processes
graphic data relating to maps, for example, instead of the
lines of Appellant or the truck data of Alexander. The
Examiner indicates that page boundaries of broken lines and
solid lines constitute the classified groups as an example in
Shimada (answer-page 4). Other examples of classified map
data groups in Shimada could be city or town boundaries, or
major buildings. Each of these attributes are classified,
stored and displayed in groups (note column 12, lines 48-58).
Since Alexander displays attribute groups, one group at a time
(via a visual attribute icon, representing, e.g. fuel), and
Shimada displays attribute groups, one group at a time
(representing, e.g. buildings), the Examiner contends it would
have been obvious to use Shimada’s classification and storing
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