Appeal No. 2002-1971
Application 09/020,668
document, only what documents are displayed (Br11). It is argued
that Lucas does not disclose applying filter criteria to two
lenses that control what information is displayed within each
lens (Br11).
The examiner does not respond to this argument. The
rejection states that the "find tool" is a "filter" which
arranges e-mail messages which have been previously read in the
background (to the right of knot 104 in Fig. 9), which the
examiner considers to be the "first lens," and e-mail messages
which have not been read in the foreground (to the left of
knot 104 in Fig. 9), which the examiner considers to be the
"second lens" (EA4-5; EA11). There are several problems with
this interpretation. First, the examiner's interpretation of the
foreground and background, areas of the display to the left or
right of a knot and containing several documents, as lenses is
inconsistent with the previous interpretation of the document
objects themselves as lenses. Second, as noted by appellant, the
find tool does not affect what is displayed within document
objects (assuming the document objects are the lenses), as
required by generating and displaying first and second filtered
information elements in paragraphs (c)-(f). Third, the find tool
applies to all the documents; there is no first filter criteria
applied to information elements in a first lens and a second
filter criteria applied to information elements in a second lens.
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