Ex Parte TARBOX et al - Page 9




          Appeal No. 2001-0374                                                         
          Application No. 08/971,255                                                   

          rejection of independent claims 1, 7 and 13, nor of claims 3, 4,             
          9, 10, 15 and 16 dependent thereon.                                          
               With respect to the rejection of claims 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 and             
          17, the Examiner further relies on Gennaro for teaching an                   
          embedded menu in a web browser for displaying a plurality of                 
          links (answer, page 8).  Additionally, in rejecting claims 6, 12             
          and 18, the Examiner combines Nagai and Pitchaikani with Mayo                
          which discloses a representation of a relationship among entities            
          in a communications network based on their interface conditions.             
          However, neither Gennaro nor Mayo provide any teaching related to            
          the claimed selecting the attribute to be displayed and                      
          activating a transient display of that attribute for a selected              
          time period and fail to overcome the deficiencies of Nagai and               
          Pitchaikani as discussed above.  Therefore, the 35 U.S.C. § 103              
          rejection of claims 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 17 and 18 cannot be              
          sustained.                                                                   











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