Appeal No. 2002-0367
Application No. 09/108,147
resulting in some condition, appears to be unreasonable. This is
because the instant claims call for predetermining at least one
invocative attribute for each of a plurality of system elements
and then, responsive to the occurrence of an invocative
attribute, enabling the selective addition of an associated
computer component to the operation of the computer.
If the mere selection of a menu item in Garvey is an
“invocative attribute,” then there is nothing in Garvey
responsive to this selection that enables a “selective addition
of an associated computing component...” because once the
selection of a menu item is made in Garvey, there is no
“selective addition” to be made. The menu item in Garvey is
merely opened on selecting that item. And if one were to say
that the act of opening the menu in Garvey is the “invocative
attribute” and the selection of an item from that drop down menu
is the “means responsive to the occurrence of an invocative
attribute for enabling said selective addition...,” then there
would still be the problem of the claimed “means for displaying a
listing of said computing components enabled for said selective
addition for each of said displayed elements” for no such listing
would be, or can be said to be, displayed in Garvey.
Since Spofford does not provide for the deficiencies of
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