Appeal No. 2004-0172
Application No. 09/528,628
The examiner alleges that Shore teaches such an automatic
display by asserting “that any process on a computer system is
considered an ‘automatic’ process” (answer-page 6).
Shore does appear to disclose the display of clips generated
by a user and that log cards provide a visual representation of
those clips (see column 4, lines 56-65), but the examiner has
pointed to nothing within the disclosure of Shore suggesting that
there is any “automatic” display of a thumbnail depiction of
frames and a subsequent series of frames, as claimed.
With regard to the examiner’s assertion that any process on
a computer system is considered an “automatic” process, we do not
agree. While a computer system may permit certain automatic
processes, not every process in such a system may be considered
“automatic.” For example, input required from a user is not
automatic and a process to be carried out on the computer system
may await some manual entry or confirmation by a user before
performing some processes, in which case, the start of such a
process would not be said to be “automatic.”
In any event, the automatic display of the thumbnail
depiction in instant claim 31 occurs as a result of specific
inputs, to wit, a selected starting frame and a time interval of
a sequence. The examiner has pointed to nothing in Shore that
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