Appeal No. 2006-1790
Application No. 10/042,030
evidence of a conventional document component having an attribute, such as font size
and color.
The examiner admits that the conventional systems described in the instant
specification do not describe the claimed step of “loading a set of user preferences”
and “in response to activation of a clarification control, modifying the attribute to clarify
display of the document based on the set of user preferences to form a clarified
document.”
The examiner turns to IE to show that a user was allowed to define user
preferences for attributes of a document by selecting Tools-Internet Options, and then
selecting Accessibility-Colors-Fonts. Thus, according to the examiner, a set of user
preferences is loaded by IE by selecting three boxes in Accessibility to ignore the
explicitly specified background color, font style, font size of the retrieved web page, and
then specifying the user preference for background color, font style and font size (see
pages 5-7 of the answer).
The examiner asserts that after specifying the user preference, the “OK” box is
selected as a “clarification control” and after the selection of the “OK” box, the attributes
of the document are modified to clarify the display according to the user preference
attribute. These actions, contend the examiner, constitute the claimed “in response to
activation of a clarification control, modifying the attribute to clarify display of the
document based on the set of user preferences to form a clarified document.”
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