Appeal No. 2003-0133
Application 08/940,702
a high level flow chart of the Bill Browser application.
In step 70, the stored billing information is loaded at a local
location. Retained criteria is accessed in step 72. The
criteria may be retained locally and applied to new data records
locally. In step 74, the field information within the data
record is formatted and configured automatically, including the
field descriptions, field sizes, data types and editing, number
of fields and other relevant information. An action is selected
in step 76. Sorting criteria is entered in step 78 if selected.
Highlighting criteria is entered in step 80 if selected.
Filtering criteria is entered in step 82 if selected. Aliasing
data is entered in step 84. The data records in step 94 are
sorted, highlighted and filtered in response to the previously
retained criteria or the entered criteria. The formatted field
information and data is displayed in step 96. Operations occur
in the formatted field information in step 98. See page 14 of
Appellants’ specification.
Claim 1 is representative of appellants’ claimed invention
and is reproduced as follows:
1. In a browser interface system, a method for manipulating
billing and payment information comprising the steps of:
downloading billing information to a local location, wherein
said billing information is obtained using a specialized
2
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