Appeal No. 2003-1614 Page 11
Application No. 09/817,692
each download took place, is also obtained, and used later." Col. 7, ll. 51-56
(emphasis added.)
Figure 6 of Barrett, which the examiner also cites, depicts "a simplified example
of a user interface showing information displayed in accordance with the invention. . . ."
Col. 6, ll. 10-11. Although the user interface displays a list of URLs, we see no
evidence therein that the URLs are arranged based at least in part upon a particular
time during the day. To the contrary, the URLs are arranged "based on the decreasing
number of past occurrences." Col. 8, l. 61.
For its part, the second-to-last passage cited by the examiner identifies Web
pages based on frequency of selection or recency of selection rather than on time-of-
day. Specifically, "a Web page likely to be selected is identified. This may be done by
taking the most frequently occurring page, or by other suitable means such as
weighting past occurrences according to how recently they took place." Col. 7, ll. 5-8
(emphases added).
The last passage cited by the examiner describes "an 'Instant Hot List.'" Col. 10,
ll. 54-55. "This is a list of previously visited pages, comparable to the conventional 'hot
list' such as IBM's Quick List, but which includes a ranking based on a suitable factor,
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007