Appeal No. 2004-1380
Application No. 09/513,425
Representative claims 1 and 5 are reproduced as follows:
1. A method, comprising:
monitoring a request for an activity of a
processor-based system using an activity driver;
retrieving an icon relating to the activity from a
memory;
sending the icon to a location of a display; and
sending the request to a predetermined program
from the activity driver.
5. A method, comprising:
executing a power-on routine;
identifying a portion of the power-on routine with
a state;
retrieving an icon from a memory to represent the
state; and
sending the icon to a location of a display
associated with a headless server system.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Kampe et al. (Kampe) 5,953,010 Sep. 14, 1999
Shearer, Jr. et al. (Shearer) 5,956,507 Sep. 21, 1999
Nouri et al. (Nouri) 6,122,746 Sep. 19, 2000
(filed Oct. 01, 1997)
Tsai, Michael, “Review: Norton Utilities 3.5,” About This
Particular Macintosh, vol. 3, no. 1(January 1997),
http://www.atpm.com/3.11/page11.shtml?print.
Mecklermedia Corporation, “DU Meter,” July 23, 1998,
http://cwsapps.txcyber.com/32diag-dumeter.html (Mecklermedia).
The following rejections are on appeal before us:
1. Claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 16-19 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over the teachings of
Kampe and Shearer.
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