Appeal No. 1998-3385
Application No. 08/601,551
logical choice would have been to change the cursor to a
pointer as the pointer is normally an element used in display
systems to mark user desired locations.
The Examiner relies on Woolsey for disclosure of a
pointer used to initiate multimedia functions and directs
attention to Figure 4 of the reference. Woolsey makes use of 7
a menu for user selection of additional materials relating to
the main topic under study. One of these selections is a
dramatic presentation in the form of a video. Users are
allowed to access information relating to each video frame by
clicking directly on the video frame. If this feature were 8
to be combined with the "three dimensional" pointer of Lisle,
then the Lisle pointer would be substituted as a visual
indicator of user input means in Woolsey and used to click on
the video frame of Woolsey. Incorporation of these combined
features into the Borovoy-Vu/Post would have logically
7 See page 7 of the answer.
8 See page 30 of Vu/Post.
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