Appeal No. 2006-1617
Application No. 09/812,202
cells that are cut or copied and then pasted from one environment to another
environment. Appellants’ specification at page 5, lines 19-24.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for processing one or a plurality of absolute cell references or
cell range references during a copy/cut and paste operation in a multi
dimensional spreadsheet comprising a plurality of cells identified by
addresses or names, said method comprising the steps of:
selecting a source cell range to cut and paste or to copy and paste
into a destination cell range;
storing in a working buffer the content of each cell that belongs to
said source cell range;
clearing the content of each cell that belongs to a source cell range
to cut;
for each cell stored in the working buffer:
if the content of the stored cell comprises one or a plurality of
absolute references pointing to a cell or a cell range belonging to the
source cell range;
determining for each of said cells or cell ranges pointed by an
absolute reference and belonging to the source cell range, a relative
position within the source cell range;
determining for each of said relative position within the source cell range,
a corresponding absolute reference within the destination cell range;
replacing within the stored cell, each absolute reference pointing to
a cell or a cell range belonging to the source cell range by the
corresponding absolute references within the destination cell range;
copying the content of each cell stored in the buffer to
corresponding cells within the destination cell range.
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Anderson et al. (Anderson) EP 0569133 A2 Nov. 10, 1993
Rejections At Issue
Claim 2 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as being directed to non-statutory
subject matter.
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