Appeal No. 2002-1868
Application 09/059,033
Yuasa discloses several embodiments for "transferring under
user control at least one of the stored user commands from the
log file to the macro file." In embodiment 1, a program is
generated having functions equivalent to the entire sequence of
the command strings (col. 21, lines 58-60; col. 22, lines 48-52);
in embodiment 2, a program based on a portion of the sequence of
command strings is generated by specifying an end point to the
chaining relationship (col. 22, lines 52-55; col. 23, lines 1-7);
in embodiment 3, an intermediate portion of a sequence of
commands may be generated as a program by specifying change
points (col. 25, lines 2-6; col. 25, line 45 to col. 26,
line 56); in figure 5, the operator can arbitrarily specify a
plurality of execution results to automatically generate a
program equivalent to sequences of command series (col. 30,
lines 48-54). Yuasa discloses that "[i]tems such as commands
previously inputted by the operator can be specified thereafter
as commands or operands in a subsequent operation by use of
identifiers, icons, function keys, or the like" (col. 34,
lines 13-16). While it appears that claim 1 is anticipated by
Yuasa, the rejection is maintained under § 103.
Thus, we sustain the rejection of claims 1-3 and 12-14 based
on Yuasa alone.
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