Appeal No. 2004-0870 Page 12
Application No. 09/477,419
reference shows "a plurality of application windows 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 being
displayed on the screen of the display device 20." Col. 4, ll. 7-9. "Application
window 44 is a top-most window and, thus, is the primary or active window. The
primary or active window is the only window with which the user may interact." Id. at
ll. 17-20.
"[I]f the user desires to interact with a window other than application window 44,
each of the windows which overlay the desired window must be removed and/or
minimized." Id. at ll. 20-23 (emphasis added). Once the overlying windows are
minimized, the user may interact with a new active window. "A plurality of icons 54,
which are displayed along a border of the screen of the display device 20, represent
minimized application windows." Id. at ll. 23-26. In summary, Green teaches manually
minimizing undesired windows to interact with an active window.
As mentioned regarding claims 1-13 and 30-41, Williams' scoping window shows
minimized representations of a plurality of locations that are available to be selected by
a user. More specifically, the minimized representations comprise labels such as " IP
Internet," "| Segment 1," and "| Segment 2." In response to selection of one location,
the content window 14 displays the content of that location. For example, Figure 1a of
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