Appeal No. 08/911,596
Application No. 2001-2049
selectively modified, which disk space in Windows clearly is. No
step of actual modifying is in the claim” [answer-page 14].
However, while disk space is able to be selectively modified by
deleting programs and/or data on the disk, this is not selective
modification “in response to execution of the data processing
application,” as required by the claim language. Moreover, while
the claim may not require “actual” modification, it does require
the capability of selective modification in response to execution
of the data processing application and this has not been shown,
by the examiner, to be disclosed by Greiner.
Further, the execution of the data processing application,
to which the claim refers, includes “translating a first
plurality of user input signals to a first plurality of
translated data values.” The examiner explains that this is a
broad recitation which would encompass a keyboard since a
keyboard translates user inputs to transcribed values.
We agree with the examiner that a keyboard does meet the
limitation of “translating a first plurality of user input
signals to a first plurality of translated data values.”
However, this phrase is not employed in a vacuum. Rather, claim
34 requires that the availability of the resource is selectively
modified, that the modification is in response to execution of
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