Appeal No. 1999-2666 Page 12
Application No. 08/565,584
help he or she receives. For example, whenever
user-set thresholds are exceeded, the user is
notified and has the option of continuing with
the previous level of help/dialog information.
From the teachings of Eisen, we find that the user is always
in control of the amount of help provided, and that after a
user defined threshold is met, the user is notified and has
the option of continuing with the previous level of help
information, as opposed to limiting the providing of help
information to a given number of occurrences. We therefore
conclude that Eisen would not have suggested limiting the
displaying of the arrow and remaining time indicators of Okada
after identical advice images have been displayed to a player
a given number of times.
Accordingly, the rejection of claims 17 and 22 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 is reversed.
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