Appeal No. 1999-1605
Application 08/502,882
the processor to the main memory, and a display adapter (EA4).
The Examiner finds that Sawdon teaches these features and
concludes that "[i]t would have been obvious to have modified
Tanaka et al as modified with the feature of a display adapter
as taught by Sawdon, so as to configure the display to operate
in a desired display mode (see column 2, lines 37-40); e.g.
VGA mode or CGA mode" (EA4).
Appellants argue that, as with claim 1, neither Tanaka
nor Rickenbach teaches the limitation of different
applications being responsive to groups of user input devices
and Sawdon does not teach this limitation (Br9).
For the reasons discussed in connection with a similar
limitation in claim 1, we find that the limitation that "said
processor is capable of executing multiple applications and
displaying multiple video programming, each of which are
responsive to selected groups of the user input devices such
that different applications and different video programming
are responsive to different selected groups of the user input
devices" is not taught or suggested by the combination of
Tanaka and Rickenbach. Sawdon is only applied to show the
details of the processor and display and does not cure this
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