Appeal No. 1998-3126 11
Application No. 08/479,569
topics is obtained by selecting an item on the menu bar, such as
"View" or "Test," and obtaining a description of the selected
item by pressing F1.
Appellants further assert (reply brief, page 2) that none of
the reference describes topic-oriented audio help, and that there
is no motivation from the references to generate audible, rather
than the text-based help common at the time of the invention.
The examiner's position (answer, page 4) is that Ludwig
discloses an audio retrieval program generating an audio
description of topics.
We find that Ludwig discloses a multimedia teleconferencing
and messaging system in an environment that includes text,
graphics, audio, and video (page 136). The multimedia database
server includes an image-description oriented verbal natural
language front-end for queries (page 139). Database objects
include pointers to audio/video players, laserdisk players and
VCRs (page 140). We note that Ludwig does not disclose the use
of a help system for assistance in using the multimedia system.
Reed discloses a database search system that retrieves
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