Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
field length can be a byte range specified irrespective of
data record values, so Appellants' arguments are not
commensurate in scope with the claim language. Claim 1 does
not preclude the field ranges from being enumerated fields as
shown in Rothfield. Claim 1 does not recite how the field
range is designated, so it does not distinguish over
Rothfield's method of selecting fields. We find that
Rothfield teaches designating a sequence of operations and
designating a field range.
Producing a Selectable Task Icon
Claim 1 further recites "producing a selectable display
task icon that represents the sequence of data operations."
The Examiner finds that Rothfield teaches "producing a
display task icon 14a,26 that represents the sequence of data
operations" (FR2).
Appellants argue that Rothfield does not teach this
limitation (Br6). It is argued that Rothfield provides
selectable graphical nodes, but each node represents a table
that is the subject of a database query and has nothing to do
with the execution of operations "on one or more data files,"
as specified in the claims (Br6-7).
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