Appeal 2007-0563 Application 10/001,940 1 C. Findings of fact (“FF”) 2 The record supports the following findings of fact as well as any other 3 findings of fact set forth in this opinion by at least a preponderance of the 4 evidence. 5 1. Applicants’ claims 1-38 are the subject of this appeal. 6 2. The Examiner finally rejected claims 1-38 based on the 7 combination of Iwamura and Montgomery. 8 3. There are eleven independent claims involved in the appeal. 9 4. Applicants argue all of the claims 1-38 together as a group (Br. 10 11). 11 5. Independent claims 1, 11, 33 and 37 are reproduced as follows: 12 1. A graphical user interface comprising: 13 a rendered image of at least one graphical object, wherein the 14 graphical object uses a number of pixels on a display device; 15 a color value stored for each pixel in the display device; and 16 object identification data stored with each pixel covered by the 17 rendered image, wherein the object identification data uniquely 18 identifies the graphical object located at the pixel. 19 11. A method for providing information to a program using a 20 graphical user interface, the method comprising: 21 rendering an image of a plurality of graphical objects at 22 specified locations of a two-dimensional display device; 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
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