Appeal No. 2004-0820
Application No. 09/317,312 Page 17
positioning of objects within the whiteboard, and that this
positioning of objects within the whiteboard is seen by the other
participants, even though no mouse event occurs as the mouse is
not within the whiteboard. However, we find any assertion that
use of Glaser's scroll bars will result in upon ascertaining,
after termination of scrolling, which part of the document is
being displayed by the computer, and after said ascertainment,
transmitting to the other computers data which enables them to
display said part of the document, to be unsupported by the
disclosure of Glaser. We find the examiner's assertions (answer,
page 4) that Glaser discloses, "[a]fter the ascertainment,
transmitting to the other computers data . . . which enables them
to display said part of the document,” to be speculation, and not
inferences reasonably drawn from the disclosure of Glaser.
In addition, we find that if a user placed the mouse in the
whiteboard area and depressed the mouse while moving the mouse
downward along the displayed page and kept the mouse depressed at
the bottom of the page, that the user would be scrolling down the
document and that the scrolling would be detected as a computer
event since the mouse is depressed and moving within the
whiteboard area. Thus, the area displayed to the participant
would be displayed to the other conference participants.
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