Appeal No. 2007-0340
Application 10/057,259
Anticipation is a question of fact. In re Schreiber, 128 F.3d 1473, 1477,
44 USPQ2d 1429, 1431 (Fed. Cir. 1997). “To anticipate a claim, a prior art
reference must disclose every limitation of the claimed invention, either explicitly
or inherently” (id.).
DISCUSSION
Eden discloses a system and method for building a graphical user interface
(GUI) in real-time for the purpose of indicating which known network-connected
devices are available and which are unavailable.
As shown in Figure 3, querying device 102, which includes GUI 104 and
timer 120, is responsive to commands from user interface 119 (referred to as 118
at 2, para. 30) to issue status queries to the network-connected devices 106-116 (id.
at 2, para. 30).
Figure 6 illustrates Eden’s method, which begins at Step 600. At Step 602,
the GUI is built and represents every known network-connected device as an icon
or other representation (id. at 3, para. 44). In Step 604, the GUI represents each
device as being in its disabled or unavailable state (id. at 3, para. 37), such as by
showing an X superimposed on the device icon that appears next to each device
name (id. at 2, para. 32; Fig. 4). In Step 606, the GUI spawns N threads in order to
ascertain the connection status of the devices. Step 608 shows that all of the
threads are executed in parallel. In Step 610, the GUI modifies the display by
removing the X from the icon of each device that has been determined to be
available (id. at 3, para. 44). Figure 5 shows the GUI display after it has been
determined that four of the six devices are available (id. at 2, para. 37).
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