The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the
Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte VINCENTIUS PAULUS BUIL and JOSEPHUS HUBERTUS EGGEN
Appeal No. 2006-0531
Application 09/932,070
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, DIXON, and KRASS, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 through 9 and 11 through 13.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A system for browsing a collection of information units,
comprising presentation means for presenting at least one of said
information units, and attribute means for associating a
respective one of said information units with an attribute value,
wherein the system comprises random selection means for
automatically randomly selecting and presenting a unit whose
attribute value meets a criterion, the selection and presentation
being made without interaction by a user.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Cluts 5,616,876 Apr. 1, 1997
Looney et al. 5,969,283 Oct. 19, 1999
Dunning et al. (Dunning) 2003/0229537 Dec. 11, 2003
(Filed Apr. 30, 2001)
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