Appeal No. 2000-0963
Application No. 08/736,883
this appeal is directed to the rejection of claims 1, 20, 57-59,
62-84 and 86-104.
The invention is directed to a display-oriented graphical
editing system which allows for inputting and editing of data in
the form of informal scribbling in handwriting and sketches, and
inputting of ASCII characters. The invention permits unstructured
freeform data to be entered, and the type of data structure does
not have to be identified until an editing operation is to be
performed on the data.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A display-oriented graphical editing system which allows
for inputting and editing of data in the form of informal scribbing
in handwriting and sketches, and inputting and editing of ASCII
characters, the system comprising:
a substantially uniformed unlined display;
means for entering the data, which is unstructured freeform
data, anywhere on said unlined display; wherein the structure of
said displayed data is undetermined at the time of their entry;
means for selecting an editing operation from among a
plurality of editing operations to be performed on at least a
portion of said displayed data, the editing operations capable of
being performed including selectively editing of script, ASCII and
diagrams;
means for designating said portion of said displayed data as
at least one particular data structure before performing said
editing operation; wherein the at least one particular data
structure of said selected portion of said displayed data may be
changed after performing said editing operation; and
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