Appeal 2007-0345
Application 09/812,417
the majority identified how these terms of art in the Graphical User Interface
(GUI) art are to be interpreted out of this particular context. If independent
claim 1 were to recite the claimed method is “computer implemented,” I
believe it would “look” more statutory, but that alone may not be sufficient.
Even without that extra modifier of “computer-implemented,” I find that the
recited steps of the method when read in light of Appellants’ Specification,
as they are required to be interpreted rather than in a vacuum, are directed to
a statutory process where data is transformed by a machine. Here, a user
selects a future program and then is provided a future program action menu
to select a future program action, and the user accepts or modifies the future
program action and then displays with an indicator the selected future
program and selected future program action.
Independent claim 1 recites:
A method for indicating future program action on a future
program information display comprising:
providing future program information for a plurality of future
programs, at least one future program being selected by a user;
providing, on a future program action menu, a plurality of
future program actions for the selected future program, at least one
future program action being selected by the user, each future program
action being an action selected to be performed on a future program;
allowing the user to accept or modify the action;
receiving the selected at least one future program and the
selected at least one future program action from the user; and
displaying the future program information of the selected at
least one future program with an indicator such that the indicator
indicates the selected at least one future program action.
Here, I find these specific steps with actions being performed with a
user with respect to at least a future program, a future program action, and
an indicator to be sufficient to set forth a statutory process which is
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