Appeal No. 2000-0467
Application 08/511,645
displayed on a display and dragging the representation of the
first object from a first location on the display to a second
location associated with a second object. See Appellant’s
specification page 6, lines 27 through page 7, line 7 and
Figures, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B. The method further includes
determining whether the second object is either a service object
or a container object. See Appellant’s specification page 7,
line 15 through page 8, line 4. Then the method performs either
a service with respect to the first object if the second object
is a service object or moves the representation of the first
object from the first location to a location associated with the
second object if the second object is a container object. Id. A
further embodiment relates to detecting when a user’s
capabilities are limited to reading the object and then
prohibiting movement of the first object to a second location.
See Appellant’s specification page 9, lines 3-13 and Figure 4.
Independent claims 1, 18 and 26 are reproduced as follows:
1. A method for manipulating objects in a graphical user
interface for a computer, of the type in which representations of
objects stored in a memory are displayed to a user on a display,
comprising the steps of:
selecting a first object whose representation is displayed
on said display;
2
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