Appeal No. 2004-2261 Page 6
Application No. 09/494,690
Figure 2B illustrates an exemplary bottom panel 40 displaying a physical
representation 46 of a supply chain. Icons 48 represent suppliers, factories, distribution
centers, warehouses, retail stores, or any other entities affecting the movement of raw
materials, component parts, equipment, products, or any other items in the supply
chain. Links 56 couple together two or more icons 48 to represent distribution
resources in the supply chain. The distribution resources may include transportation
resources, shipping resources, or any other resources that affect the movement of raw
materials, component parts, equipment, products, or any other items between entities in
the supply chain. In a particular embodiment, arrows or other directional indicators 58
specify the direction of movement of items between supply chain entities.
Petchenkine
Petchenkine's invention relates to a method of configuring a prepress workflow
using a graphical user interface. The method comprises the steps of loading a prepress
memory manager on a work station computer platform as a result of a user input such
that a graphical user interface is displayed on a computer screen and includes a
prepress system design palette and a modules toolbar having module icons
representing different prepress hardware and/or software distributed object modules
that can potentially be used in a prepress workflow operation. The module icons are
dragged from the modules toolbar into the system design palette and represent the
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