Appeal No. 2001-2688
Application No. 08/735,619
Clanton does indeed teach these limitations in that it is
arranged stock which are the movie posters on a screen having
logical coordinates which are nothing more than the physical XY
coordinates of the icons on the screen. We find that claim 24
does not preclude this reading because claim 24 is not directed
to a database in which the database is organized according to
logical coordinates. Instead, it is just directed to the
placement of icons on a screen in an XY fashion.
We find that Clanton teaches a method of selecting a
physical item from a stock of physical items, such physical items
classifiable in one having at least two categories. Clanton
teaches movies which are a stock of physical items. Clanton
teaches that these physical items are classifiable into movie
types as well as the top 10 in each movie type so therefore they
are classifiable in two categories. Furthermore, Clanton teaches
that the step of representing the stock as a geometric object
corresponding to a virtual space having logical coordinates in at
least two dimensions, where each physical item is assigned to a
point on a logical coordinates in accordance with its category.
Clanton teaches that the movies are placed on a wall board which
is a geometric object. The geometric object corresponds to
virtual space having logical coordinates in at least two
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