Appeal 2006-2496
Application 09/944,696
3. A method in a data processing system having versions of a
plan, each reflecting an instance in an edit history, the method comprising
the steps of:
storing indications of the versions of the plan; and
displaying the versions of the plan in a sequential manner to simulate
animation of the edit history;
wherein said displaying is visually distinctive as a function of
frequency of change in the edit history.
The following references are relied on by the Examiner:
Garofalakis US 5,845,279 Dec. 1, 1998
Nauckhoff US 5,893,128 Apr. 6, 1999
Boden US 5,930,512 Jul. 27, 1999
Kumashiro US 6,240,395 B1 May. 29, 2001
(filed Dec. 10, 1998)
Microsoft ® Word 2000, “About adding comments and keeping track of
changes”, pp. 1-2 and Fig. 1, 1999
“ls”, <http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/sgi-ls.1.html>, 2000, pp. 1-7
Claims 3-17, 28-31 and 38-44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a). As evidence of obviousness, the Examiner combines Boden with
Nauckhoff and Microsoft ® Word 2000 for the first stated rejection of
claims 3-10, 13-15, 28, 38, 41 and 441. For the second stated rejection of
claims 11, 16, 30, 39 and 42, the Examiner combines Boden, Nauckhoff and
1 Claims 28 and 44 were inadvertently omitted from the statement of the
rejection in the Answer, but were rejected in the body of the rejection.
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