Appeal No. 2005-1431
Application 09/442,070
data objects. The data objects may be local to the user's computer system or
remotely located over a network. . . .
. . . When graphics, sound, video or other media capable of being
manipulated and presented in a computer system is used as the object linked to,
the document is said to be a hypermedia document. A hypermedia document is
similar to a hypertext document, except that the user is able to click on images,
sound icons, video icons, etc., that link to other objects of various media types,
such as additional graphics, sound, video, text, or hypermedia or hypertext
documents.
Id. at col. 1, l. 61 to col. 2, l. 2 and col. 2, ll. 17-27 (emphasis added). Doyle's Figure 1,
reproduced below, shows an example of a hypermedia document 10 containing an image
icon 22, a sound icon 24, and hypertext 20 and 26 (designated by underlining), any of
which links can be clicked on by the user (i.e., reader) to cause retrieval and display of
the linked information.
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