Appeal No. 2002-0366 Page 8
Application No. 08/803,692
predetermined period of time, such as three minutes, the gallery
display is updated to indicate that the worker is in the idle
level of activity. If the keyboard is idle for a predetermined
period, such as two hours, the activity level is updated to
"absent." In an alternative embodiment, an absent determination
may be based on whether the worker has logged out of his computer
(col. 7, lines 7-18). Thus, the activity level is updated
automatically, preferably any time there is a change in the
worker's state (col. 7, lines 20-22). Each user determines which
other workers’ icons to have in his gallery window 10 (col. 13,
lines 15 and 16). Tang'365 further discloses that when the user
logs on and starts up, the activity manager 91 is also started up
on the user's computer. The activity manager monitors the
windows and keyboard and determines whether the computer 101 is
active (col. 14, line 64 through col. 15, line 1).
From the disclosure that the activity manager is started up
and monitors the activity of the computer when the user logs on,
and the teaching of Tang'365 that the user is determined to be
absent when the user logs off from his computer, we find that the
system of Tang'365 monitors log-on and log-off of the computer,
in addition to monitoring user activity. If Tang'365 can sense
the logging off of a user, Tang'365 must inherently be able to
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