Appeal No. 2004-1764 Page 2
Application No. 08/704,400
sometimes found the speed of the cursor too low to transfer the cursor over large
distances rapidly and, other times, too high to position the cursor accurately. (Id. at 2.)
Accordingly, upon activation of a user-interface means, the appellants' invention
displaces a cursor with a certain range of speed during a predetermined interval. After
the interval has elapsed, their invention displaces the cursor within a faster range of
speed. (Id.) They assert that "[a]ccurate positioning of [the] cursor . . . is accomplished
in a fairly simple way without being hindered by a too high cursor speed, whereas large
distances can be traversed fairly rapidly, all within the same application." (Id. at 5.)
A further understanding of the invention can be achieved by reading the following
claims.
34. A data processing system, comprising:
a display;
a cursor controller connected to said display for displacement of a
cursor represented on said display; and
a user-interface coupled to said cursor controller, said user-
interface operable to sense a user-desired manipulation of the cursor
based on a time period of an application of force on said user-interface by
a user,
wherein a displacement speed of the cursor as represented
by said display is dependent upon the time period of the application of
force on said user-interface by the user,
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