Appeal No. 2006-2177 Page 10
Application No. 10/127,152
example, we are unable to discern the contents of most of the thumbnails shown "at the
bottom of the figure at the bottom of page 223." (App. Br. at 11.)
For its part, Wilcox "provides a set of on-screen interface components which may
be used in various combinations and arrangements to provide an easy-to-use consumer
interface." (Col. 2, ll. 22-25.) "FIG. 5 illustrates, in wire frame format, three of the basic
interface components of the present invention the screen, category item and menu item.
. . ." (Col. 2, ll. 58-60.) "The category item 112 type of node contains a list of category
item icon nodes 120 (see FIG. 5) representing categories of items for the viewer 12 to
choose from, such as drama or sports (e.g., see FIG. 8). The list of category item
nodes is rendered as a series of choices in a list which the viewer may scroll to the left
or right using the input device 13." (Col. 19, ll. 29-35.) The secondary reference
teaches that "the category item nodes may be represented by an image (e.g., see
FIG. 9), by text only, or by a combination of image and text (e.g., see FIG. 8)." (Col. 19,
ll. 64-66.) For our part, we find that those skilled in the art would have known that
representing an item by both an image and text would have made the item easier to
identify than an item represented only by an image.
Because images represented by the thumbnails of Siegel are difficult to discern,
Wilcox teaches that items may be represented by an image and text rather than just an
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