Appeal No. 2005-0871
Application 09/248,736
line 2). If tables upon which a filter is applied change after a
filter has been created, then upon receipt of a command such as a
REFRESH command the filter automatically modifies the customized
tree to reflect the changed tables (page 11, lines 15-17). When
a user is satisfied with the filter that has been created the
user may lock the values by clicking “OK” (page 11, lines 22-23).
Figure 17 shows a Change Folder window which differs from the Add
Folder to Tree window (figure 12) only in that the Change Folder
window reflects selections previously made (page 14, lines 11-
14). Filtering criteria may be changed by a user if different
criteria are desired (page 14, lines 16-17). Changes made by a
user take effect when the user clicks the “OK” button, those
changes are saved, and the contents of the object which had been
selected are reflected in the contents of a folder displayed in a
subwindow when the object is selected (page 14, lines 17-22).
The examiner argues that the appellants’ figure 17 shows a
user interface for defining a filter but does not provide any
mechanism for saving the filter and the specified selection
criteria (answer, pages 3-4). The appellants’ disclosure that
the Change Folder window in figure 17 reflects the selections
previously made indicates that the filter and selection criteria
used to make those previous selections have been saved such that
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