Appeal No. 2002-0366 Page 10
Application No. 08/803,692
of claim 21 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is therefore affirmed.
Turning to claims 22-24, Tang'173 discloses (col. 7, lines
29-36) that “[i]n addition to the visual representation of
workers in the encounter window, an aural indication may be used
to indicate each time a worker becomes task proximate, or loses
task proximity. Different aural indications may be used for each
of these events, for example, with a long beep tone when a worker
becomes task proximate, and a short beep tone when a worker loses
proximity. Other sound effects may also be used,” and (col. 10,
lines 3-6) “[i]n addition, the minimal mode optionally includes
aural indications commensurate with the visual ones, with
distinct tones for when a worker enters the task space and for
when a worker leaves the task space.” From these disclosures of
Tang'173, we find that Tang'173 would have suggested to an
artisan allowing a user to select a sound, and that different
sounds be provided to indicate when a person has logged on or
logged off. From all of the above, the rejection of claims 22-24
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) is affirmed.
We turn next to the rejection of claim 27.
We find that in Tang'365, each worker decides which other
worker's visual representations are displayed in the gallery
window (col. 5, lines 19-21). If the worker has established that
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