Appeal No. 2001-2688
Application No. 08/735,619
Appellants' Figure 10 symbolically illustrates search
methodology. See page 5 of Appellants' specification. Figure 10
shows a two-dimensional grid which has rows and columns. Icons
600 represent a particular movie. The database of the movies is
arranged based on two categories. The categories in the
horizontal direction is the alphabetical listing of the movies
and the category in the vertical direction is the type of movie
such as action, comedy or drama as shown in Figure 10. Each
movie has a logical coordinate which corresponds to the
horizontal coordinate of the alphabet and the vertical coordinate
of the type of movie. See Appellants' Figure 10 and page 11 of
the specification. By arranging the database of selections in
this manner, a user can make selections of a particular movie in
an easy and understandable fashion. If the user makes a
transition to a new category, the system displays four movie
icons having titles that are located in the same location of the
alphabet as the previous four displayed icons. In this manner,
as the user makes transitions from category to category the user
is always searching the same location in the alphabet. See pages
11 and 12 of Appellants' specification. Thus, each icon is
classified in the database by a point based upon the logical
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