Appeal No. 2001-0374
Application No. 08/971,255
In re Fine, 837 F.2d 1071, 1074, 5 USPQ2d 1596, 1598 (Fed. Cir.
1988).
Turning to Nagai, we find that the reference discloses a
display system for management of a communication network in which
color data corresponding to the status values of specific network
objects may be displayed in a display location corresponding to
the object (Fig. 10 and col. 6, lines 38-43). Nagai further sets
forth the process for providing the object display data, in col.
4, lines 8-17 and Figures 1 and 2, by stating:
First, prior to the operation of the network
management/display processing system, a user at the display
unit 103 sets colors of elements in the communication
network to be displayed on the CRT 113 according to their
status values (administrative state value, operational state
value and severity) as shown in a state display color matrix
table in FIG. 3, using the keyboard 120 and the
display-presentation-system setter 119 (step 201) to store
the set data in the screen configuration/display data base
115 (step 202).
(Emphasis added).
Therefore, Nagai requires that setting the colors that correspond
to status values of the objects in a table before operating the
network data display. Additionally, as acknowledged by the
Examiner (answer, page 12), the user in Nagai sets the identifier
colors of elements according to their status values. Nagai, in
fact requires the user to determine all the colors associated
with specific status values in a table for display instead of
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