Appeal No. 1999-2666 Page 8
Application No. 08/565,584
provided for items such as how to select and copy text from a
file menu (col. 7, lines 9-13). Having determined that the
user has mastered the task, monitoring device 320 updates the
user’s historical information. We find that Okada, in
contrast, is directed to a video game. Advise to a player
regarding time remaining and operating direction is provided
to a user is based upon a clock pulse counter 20 (col. 1,
lines 46-51 and col. 4, lines 6 to 14).
The examiner (answer, page 5) relies upon the teaching in
Lanier (col. 2, lines 52-55) that Lanier’s system could be
implemented in other operating environments. We find however,
that this teaching of Lanier does not extend to a video game.
In Okada, advise is provided in order to enable the user to
react more quickly while playing the video game. We find this
to be different from Lanier where the training is cognitive in
nature.
We therefore find that one of ordinary skill in the art
would not have been taught to combine the teachings of Okada
to the computer help system of Lanier to add a game as well as
a system for providing automatic advice as advanced by the
examiner. Obviousness may not be established using hindsight
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