Appeal No. 2003-1094
Application No. 09/131,063
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a method, apparatus and program product
for displaying a hypertext document. Claims 1 and 46, directed
toward the method, are illustrative:
1. A method of displaying a hypertext document, the method
comprising:
(a) displaying at least a portion of a hypertext document on
a computer display;
(b) accessing a comment data structure including a plurality
of comments to locate a predetermined comment among the plurality
of comments that is associated with the hypertext document;
(c) displaying a display representation of the predetermined
comment on the computer display; and
(d) adding a new comment to the comment data structure by
building the comment from information in a comment data tag
embedded in the hypertext document.
46. A method of generating a hypertext document, the method
comprising;
(a) authoring a hypertext document; and
(b) embedding within the hypertext document at least one
comment data tag, the comment data tag including comment data
that defines a plurality of comments, each comment associated
with a predetermined storage location.
THE REFERENCES
Nielsen 5,937,417 Aug. 10, 1999
(filed May 7, 1996)
Hayashi et al. (Hayashi) 6,014,677 Jan. 11, 2000
(filed Jun. 10, 1996)
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