Appeal No. 2000-0545
Application 08/638,339
page 10, lines 1-5. The use of Appellant’s claim language, “user built channel map”
reasonably allows for the reading of claim 1 language as requiring the user to have
selectively chosen a channel map listing a correlation of channel inputs to their
corresponding sources.
Addressing the phrase “assigned by the user to correlate to one of the channel
numbers,” Appellant’s specification states that “[t]he user may . . . manually add or delete
channels to or from the [channel map decision] list 60, or change the setting . . . for a
given channel in the channel map decision list 60.” Specification, page 10, lines 22-25.
The use of Appellant’s claim language, “assigned by the user to correlate to one of the
channel numbers” reasonably allows for the reading of claim 1 language as requiring the
channel identifiers, as modified or set by the user in the channel map decision list, to
correlate to one of the channel numbers in the two or more sources.
We first determine whether Klosterman teaches channel number arbitration
provided by a memory for storing a user built channel map comprising a plurality of user
channel identifiers that have each been assigned by the user to correlate to one of the
channel numbers of two or more sources. Klosterman teaches a grid guide generated
from television channel guide information received from multiple sources, and providing
a line up of all channels or a selection of channels. Klosterman, column 6, lines 19-29.
The user “[has] the ability to delete and activate the channels displayed in grid guide 50,
[and] the user can determine whether to have one of the … channels, both of the …
channels, or neither of the ..channels.” Klosterman, column 6, lines 43-47. The channel
grid guide information is stored in memory. Klosterman, column 2, lines 24-26. This
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