Appeal No. 2001-2241
Application No. 08/928,555
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a method and system for displaying and editing of
information. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method for displaying a form at a client system, the method
comprising:
providing a document describing the form, the form having a
plurality of sections, each section having descriptive information and a
plurality of data entry fields;
displaying the descriptive information for each section;
in response to a user selecting descriptive information of a section,
expanding that section by displaying the data entry fields associated with
that section; and
when the user indicates to collapse the expanded section,
collapsing that section by removing the displayed data entry field and
redisplaying the descriptive information for that section.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Wright, Jr. (Wright) 5,704,029 Dec. 30, 1997
(Filed May 23, 1994)
Bertram et al. (Bertram) 5,805,159 Sep. 8, 1998
(Filed Aug. 22, 1996)
Microsoft Project for Windows Feature Guide Business Project Planning System,
Version 1, Windows Series, Microsoft Corporation, Chapter 2; Managing a Project,
pages 54 and 55 (Copyright 1990) (Microsoft).
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