Appeal No. 2002-1868
Application 09/059,033
images. The system receives and stores digitized images
(abstract). A key aspect of the system is that the operator is
allowed to perform only a predetermined set of image processing
functions that correspond to the graphical icons 30, where each
of the icons 30 launches a set of linked macro functions that
perform a variety of tasks (abstract; col. 4, lines 15-30). We
agree with appellant that the operator in Dwyer merely launches
macros using the icons 30 and does not move commands from a log
file to a macro file as found by the examiner. We also do not
understand the examiner's reasoning regarding Clark as applied to
the limitation of "the log file maintaining a real time
sequential history of each of said plurality of user commands."
Clark does mention the words "real time" in the title, but Clark
is a machine system for controlling admission of communications
connection to a communications network (col. 2, lines 30-35). We
find no description of user commands, much less maintaining a
sequential history of user commands. The network controller in
Clark is a machine, not a human, and the admission control policy
data is data stored in a switch, not user commands. The examiner
states that "[t]he policy data is input into connection
algorithms and admission algorithms operated by the switch which
implement in real time connection (see column 8, lines 5-19) and
that is a log file maintaining a real-time sequential history of
user commands" (EA22). The examiner's reasoning is obscure and
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