Appeal No. 2004-2261 Page 7
Application No. 09/494,690
desired prepress hardware and/or software distributed object modules to be used in a
prepress workflow. The module icons are linked based on user input in the order which
represents how the prepress workflow proceeds along the selected hardware and/or
software distributed object modules represented by the module icons.
Figure 1 illustrates a graphical user interface 100 showing the system design
palette 104, a system toolbar 118 and a modules toolbar 106 with various icons in the
modules toolbar corresponding to prepress hardware and/or software distributed object
modules. Figure 7 is another view of the graphical user interface showing a workflow
that has been established on the system design palette. Petchenkine teaches (column
8, lines 14-23) that after the program icon is clicked to begin the program, system
design palette 104 is opened as a window as part of a graphical user interface 100.
Proper use of the system design palette 104 enables an operator to completely
configure the prepress system workflow and configure each individual piece of
hardware being used. The drag and drop functionality of the system makes this a very
simple operation that can be quickly accomplished.
Petchenkine further teaches (column 9, lines 25-41) that:
The Configuration menu allows for setting up and saving a new
configuration of the workflow system, or the opening of an existing system
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