Appeal No. 2001-0374
Application No. 08/971,255
interactively selecting the attribute to be transiently displayed
for a selected time period.
Pitchaikani, on the other hand, relates to acquiring and
displaying object attribute data from a database in a pop-up
window by identifying the agent running on a device and its
corresponding objects. As depicted in Figures 1 and 5, after
signals indicative of the agent and the corresponding objects are
sent by the display mechanism 120, values corresponding to the
objects are retrieved and displayed in a pop-up window (col. 7,
lines 10-41). The pop-up window is shown in Figure 3 as
containing network code 302, device description 304, attribute
category 306 and attribute identifiers/values 308/310 (col. 11,
lines 1-13). The pop-up window further includes reset button 312
which causes new values to be retrieved and displayed for
attributes 308 in attribute value area 310 (col. 11, lines 13-
22).
Although we acknowledge that Pitchaikani’s reset button
modifies the content of the pop-up window, it neither selects the
attribute to be transiently displayed nor activates for a
selected time period a transient display of a selected attribute.
Therefore, contrary to the Examiner’s proposed combination of the
pop-up window of Pitchaikani with the data display system of
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