Appeal No. 2002-1971
Application 09/020,668
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to methods for accessing information
from a body of knowledge as concisely described by appellant in
the Summary of the Invention (brief, pp. 2-7).
Claim 15 is reproduced below.2
15. A method of accessing selected information from a
body of knowledge stored in a computer system, the body of
knowledge stratified into a plurality of levels of
abstraction, the method comprising:
(a) concurrently displaying first and second
information elements in first and second lenses on a
computer display, respectively, the first and second
information elements respectively associated with first
and second levels of abstraction in the body of
knowledge;
(b) visually linking the first and second
information elements displayed on the computer display
in a three dimensional workspace to represent a
hierarchical arrangement of the first and second levels
of abstraction, wherein visually linking the first and
second information elements includes orienting the
first and second lenses along an abstraction axis, the
abstraction axis oriented generally perpendicular to
the first and second lenses;
(c) applying a first filter criteria associated
with the first lens to the plurality of information
elements to generate a first set of filtered
information elements:
(d) applying a second filter criteria associated
with the second lens to the plurality of information
elements to generate a second set of filtered
information elements;
2 There is no antecedent basis for "the plurality of
information elements" in steps (c) and (d). Only first and
second information elements are recited in steps (a) and (b).
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