Appeal 2007-0145
Application 10/183,797
automatically detect for a given window when the inactivity period has
expired" (Final Rejection 4). It is not clear how the Examiner proposes to
modify Hale in view of Maddalozzo. We agree that it would have been
obvious to incorporate the window control of Maddalozzo into Hale because
there is no reason why Maddalozzo's method could not be used in Hale's
computer; i.e., the window control and the timed screen blanking would be
independent of one another. However, the Examiner evidently proposes to
somehow adapt the teaching of inactivating the display in Hale by a
keyboard controller to inactivating individual windows in Maddalozzo in a
windows environment. The specific way that Hale and/or Maddalozzo
would have to be modified and the source of motivation for that
modification has not been explained and is not clear, especially since Hale is
not a windows system. It appears that the Examiner must be trying to meet
limitations that are not claimed, such as inactivating individual windows, but
we cannot tell without a more detailed explanation of the modifications.
If Hale was a windows environment, then extending the inactivation of one
window to several individual windows would have been much simpler.
Nevertheless, the rejection clearly proposes combining a windows
environment as taught by Maddalozzo with the computer in Hale and this
combination is all that is required for most claims. Hale is not limited to any
particular operating system. Therefore, one of ordinary skill in the art would
have been motivated to use any conventional operating system, such as the
windows operating system as taught by Maddalozzo, in the computer of
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