Appeal No. 2002-1868
Application 09/059,033
does not point out the sequential history of user commands.
Lastly, we do not understand how the stated motivation that "the
system [of the combination] would provide the better reliable
tool to end users by preformat [sic] prior transferring linked
macro of log files's command based on user's command in term of
real time factor" (FR4) results in the claimed invention or find
any support for the motivation in the record.
Nevertheless, despite the examiner's findings to the
contrary, it appears that claim 1 would have been obvious over
Yuasa alone. Yuasa discloses a "command recall function" where
the recorded key and/or mouse operations are called "macros,"
which are programs (col. 1, lines 10-52). The command recall
function in various languages have problems, such as it being
impossible to directly specify an arbitrary command or value, the
commands record any operator errors, the chaining relationships
between commands are not attained, etc. (col. 2, line 27 to
col. 3, line 3). Yuasa provides a method of generating a program
(macro) in which the user may use a portion of a group of
commands which have been inputted by the operator (col. 3,
line 36 to col. 4, line 46). In the Lisp programming language a
command is called an S-expression and an execution of a command
is expressed as an evaluation of an S-expression and a result of
an execution of a command is called a value (col. 6,
lines 29-32). The operator display 301 in Fig. 12 has a listener
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