Appeal No. 1998-2674
Application 08/329,724
and 19 stand allowed. Appellants do not appeal the final
rejection of claims 11-18.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to an information cursor for
displaying information relating to a visual object displayed
on a video display to which the information cursor points.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. In a data processing system having a video
display and an input device, a method, comprising the
steps of:
(a) displaying objects on the video display, said
objects including an information cursor with a pointing
portion for pointing to locations on the video display
and an information portion for displaying information
that is displayed in a selected relative position with
respect to the pointing portion;
(b) in response to a user using the input device,
positioning the information cursor so that the pointing
portion of the information cursor points to one of the
objects that is displayed and the information portion
is in the selected relative position with respect to
the pointing portion; and
(c) displaying currently undisplayed information
on the video display about the object to which the
pointing portion of the information cursor points in
the information portion of the information cursor.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
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