Appeal No. 2000-0150
Application 08/661,440
correct to hold that Fennell "does not disclose a display
containing data manipulation tokens." Answer at 3.
For this teaching, the examiner relies on Kirk, which
discloses a user interface for an information retrieval system
which retrieves information from a number of sources, including
the Internet, and organizes the information in accordance with a
knowledge base. A preferred embodiment of the information
retrieval apparatus is implemented using a digital computer
(col. 3, ll. 43-45). Figure 6, reproduced below, shows a first
screen of the user interface 103, which consists of a hypertext
browser 602 (including text 604, graphics 606, and a hypertext
link 608), a knowledge base browser/editor 610, and a command
window 622 containing a knowledge base object editor 616 (col.
29, l. 9 to col. 30, l. 16). The upper left-hand corner of
hypertext browser 602 also shows blocks representing various
browser functions, including "Forward Link" and "Page Forward."
As indicated in Figure 7 (not reproduced below), which shows
second screen of the user interface, the knowledge base object
editor 616 of Figure 6 has been replaced by a concept editor 708.
As noted by Appellant (Brief at 8), Figure 7 includes a second
reference numeral 708, which refers to a hypertext link (col. 32,
l. 67 to col. 33, l. 1), identified in Figure 6 as 608.
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