Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 16
Application No. 08/526,743
example, as shown in figure 4, a price quote 41 is shown. In
addition, alternate quantities and prices are shown at 42. Upon
selection of the variable of a different quantity, the price will
be recalculated, as no further information is needed to
recalculate the price. As another example, as shown in figure
5B, upon changing a variable such as changing a page length from
7 to 10, the price will be recalculated as no further information
is needed. In addition, as a third example, if a customer wants
to change the variables of ink used and paper size, upon changing
the type of ink used (figure 9P), a new price would be calculated
before the change in paper size was input, as no further
information was needed. In addition, if changing of the variable
paper size requires additionally changing other variables
associated with the paper size, such as changing from portrait to
landscape, which additionally requires a change in stub location
(from e.g., 50 to 52 in figure 5A) a change would therefore be
made to two variables, i.e., orientation and stub location,
before a new price is calculated. Claim 4 recites "including the
step of adjusting the price displayed in response to each user
input change to the value of a variable affecting the price to
allow a user to see how each change in the variable affects the
price" [underlining added]. We note that claim 1, from which
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