Appeal No. 2003-2010
Application 09/150,549
BACKGROUND
A decision was entered on July 23, 1990, in Application
08/160,348, Appeal No. 95-4377, now U.S. Patent 5,874,963, of
which this case is a division, reversing rejections under
35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, and § 103. Claim 1 in that
application differed from claim 1 in this application in that it
included a limitation of "altering a graphic appearance of said
movable cursor in response to said association of said predefined
process with said movable cursor" and did not include the now
claimed limitation of executing "until said association is
disabled by a user."
The invention relates to a data processing system in which a
predefined process comprising a plurality of keystrokes (e.g., a
macro) is associated with a movable cursor, wherein the
predefined process is executed on an object (e.g., an icon) in
response to selection of the object.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A graphic method for the efficient execution of a
predefined process within a data processing system having a
keyboard, a plurality of objects and a pointing device
having at least one button and an associated movable cursor
displayed within said data processing system, said method
comprising the steps of:
specifying a predefined process within said data
processing system said predefined process comprising a
plurality of keystrokes, said plurality of keystrokes
specifying a user defined executable process which may be
applied to one or more objects within said data processing
system;
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