Appeal No. 2006-1963
Application No. 09/951,321
displayed. Further, we note that appellant’s specification, on pages 21and 22, describe
the training materials as a web site with links to other web pages. The user selects a link
to select the material they wish to review. Thus, appellant’s specification, while
discussing the availability of all of the training material does not automatically present or
display all of the training materials as appellant argues is the proper interpretation of
claim 38. We consider the scope of the claim limitation “presenting training materials”
to
include a step of making available to a user a set of information, “training materials”, we
do not consider the claim to be limited to the amount of the training materials which are
viewed by the training program participant. We consider the scope of the claim
limitation “displaying said training materials” to include a step where information,
training materials, are displayed for the training program participant to view, we do not
find that the limitation necessarily requires that information displayed to be the same as
may have been viewed by the participant in the step of “presenting” (i.e., we consider the
scope of the claim to include that the material displayed in the step of “displaying” to
include a subset of the information made available in the step of “presenting”, however
we do not consider the claim to require that all of the information made available in the
step of “presenting” is displayed in the step of “displaying.”)
As the examiner identifies in the answer, Lee teaches several scenarios for
presenting training materials prior to retest. In one embodiment Lee states, in column 7,
lines 24 through 28:
If the student has incorrectly answered some [of the] questions, the process flows
back to block 153 of FIG. 3 and the program retrieves and replays only material
relating to those questions which were missed. This replayed material could be
excerpted from the original presentation or it could be new material.
Thus, Lee teaches that the information presented to the student after the test, may be a
subset of the information presented prior to the test. As discussed above, the scope of
claim 38 includes that the information displayed after the test is a subset of the
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