Appeal No. 2001-2003
Application 08/939,185
Additionally, in the context of our earlier discussion, an enter-
tainment selection can clearly be TV from the command bar 32 as
well as to then select a particular channel. Additionally, we do
not agree with appellants' views that the remote control writing
pad information comes in the same format, since the various types
of tracings of the stylus and the writing pad enables the user to
pre-code any type of broadly definable multimedia data. One
format is iconic information, or pictograms, or handwritten, or
printed text, all of which are obviously different formats.
Appellants' arguments as to claim 55 are also misplaced
since the examiner's correlation of this claim to the discussion
at column 12 and Figures 17-19 is not so clearly misplaced as
appellants would have us believe. The plurality of different
multimedia formats are in part representative of the type of
indicia that we indicated earlier was taught at columns 7 and 8
of Lopresti and of which are depicted in graphical form in Figure
17. Additionally, the ability of Lopresti’s system to
communicate with on-demand services, video libraries, video
games, shopping and the I-mail itself obviously requires the
reformatting of information from different sources into a common
or unitary data format for use by the hand-held device of
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