Appeal No. 2003-0637
Application No. 09/103,414
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a system and method for updating a table of
contents in a frameset. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. In a computer system, a method of creating a frameset including a
table-of-contents ("TOC") linked to a target document, the method
comprising the steps of:
creating the frameset having a TOC document in a first frame and
the target document in a second frame, the target document being directly
editable, and wherein at least a portion of the TOC document and at least
a portion of the target document are visible;
creating an entry in the TOC document, the entry comprising a link
to a selected part of the target document, the target document, responsive
to a triggering of the link, operative to present the selected part as the
visible portion of the target document; and
updating without direct manual intervention the entry in the TOC
document in response to an edit to the selected part of the target
document.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
DeRose et al. (DeRose) 5,893,109 Apr. 6, 1999
(Filed mar. 15, 1996)
Sotomayor 5,963,205 Oct. 5, 1999
(Filed Jun. 14, 1995)
Lin 5,978,818 Nov. 2, 1999
(Filed Apr. 29, 1997)
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