Appeal No. 2002-0366 Page 7
Application No. 08/803,692
prima facie case of obviousness of claims 5 and 12, the rejection
of claims 5 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is reversed. As
claims 6 and 13 depend from claims 5 and 12, respectively, the
rejection of claims 6 and 13 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is
reversed.
We turn next to claims 21-24. We begin with claim 21. We
find that Tang'365 discloses (col. 2, lines 56-58) monitoring the
presence or level of activity of each worker. Tang'365 discloses
(col. 5, lines 19-21) the use of a gallery window 10 which
provides visual representations of a set of selected workers,
relating to the worker's level of activity (col. 5, lines 15 and
16, and 44 and 45). Activity levels include: "attentive" which
means the worker is actively working at his computer; "idle"
which means the worker is not actively working at his computer;
"engaged" which means that the worker is engaged in a computer
mediated interaction with other workers; "do not disturb" which
means that the worker has established that the worker does not
wish to be disturbed at this time, and "absent" which means that
the user is not in his office (col. 5 line 56 through col. 6,
line 55). Thus, the worker's activity level is a function of
their use of their computer or their presence in the workspace
(col. 6, lines 64-66). If the keyboard is idle for a
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