Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
The Examiner responds that Rothfield shows a palette with
a number of icons, such as a project icon, a filter icon, and
a join icon, which represent data operations on a table (EA6).
The Examiner's reading of claim 1 onto Rothfield does not
meet the claim limitation. In particular, the limitation
requires "a selectable display task icon" (emphasis added),
i.e., a single icon, "that represents the sequence of data
operations" (emphasis added), i.e., that represents more than
one data operation because a sequence requires a series. The
nodes in the Query diagram in window 1a of Rothfield (except
for the Sort node 18a) have three components: the functional
part, which is either a table or an operator icon; the name;
and an output icon (col. 4, line 64 to col. 5, line 4). Thus,
to use the Examiner's example, 14a is a Filter icon (col. 4,
line 68) which represents a user-designated filter operation.
However, Filter icon 14a only represents a single data
operation, not a sequence of data operation. Claim 1 requires
that the Query, the sequence of data operations shown as icons
in the window 1a in Fig. 2 which represents the designated
"sequence of user-specified application program data
operations on one or more data files" from the first step of
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