Appeal No. 1999-0828 Page 17
Application No. 08/526,743
claim 4 depends, does not require that a change to a variable
input by a user will always produce changes to other variables,
but rather that any necessary changes are depicted, which
Greulich discloses in figure 5B. In addition, we note that the
language of adjusting the price displayed in response to each
user input change to the value of a variable does not require
that the user change a variable that necessarily requires the
change in an additional variable before the price is adjusted.
We therefore find that the limitation of claim 4 is met by the
user changing variables, each of which does not require the
changing of other variables before the price quote is changed.
With respect to claim 11, we find that the limitation:
"automatically adjusting the price displayed to
a new value in response to each change of a displayed
variable value affecting the price to display each
new price value resulting from a change in one of
said displayed variable values as each of said
displayed variable values is changed to allow a
user to see how a change in a variable affects
said price"
is met by the customer changing variables that do not require a
change in another variable before the price quote is changed. In
addition, we observe that as broadly drafted, the limitations in
claim 11 regarding variables are also met by interpreting
Greulich's variables or first set of options to be the variables
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