Appeal No. 1999-1605
Application 08/502,882
The Examiner finds that the difference between the
subject matter of claim 1 and Tanaka is that Tanaka does not
teach a "personal computer is capable of running multiple
applications that are responsive to selected groups of the
user input devices, such that different applications are
responsive to different selected groups of the user input
devices." The "selected groups of the user input devices" can
be either a group of input devices on different remote
controls (e.g., one group of input devices on each remote
control, such as two television remote controls) or separate
groups of input devices on the same remote control (e.g.,
controls for a television in a television program window and
controls for a checking application in a checking application
window, Br7). The Examiner finds that Rickenbach teaches a
plurality of applications 16, 18 that can be run corresponding
to selected groups of input devices 25, 26, referring to
Fig. 1 and column 4, line 61 to column 5, line 47 (EA3). The
Examiner concludes EA3-4): "It would have been obvious to
have modified Tanaka et al with the teaching of Rickenbach et
al, so two group[s] of people could input data on a display
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