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                Appeal 2007-1340                                                                               
                Application 09/996,125                                                                         
                      on a pointing device when a cursor positioned by that device overlies                    
                      [the] respective button[]."  (Col. 3, ll. 36-39.)                                        

                 16. Figure 3 of Gong illustrates page status indications that are provided                    
                      by circular icons 16-18.  (Col. 4, ll. 1-3.)  "[I]con 16 indicates that the              
                      content of the currently displayed page is entirely new, icon 17                         
                      indicates the respective content to be partly old, and icon 18 indicates                 
                      the respective content to be entirely old."  (Col. 4, ll. 3-6.)                          

                 17. In one embodiment, Gong teaches that "a status icon is incorporated                       
                      into the browser reload selection button, to indicate that data in a                     
                      currently viewed page is old or at least partially old and to make                       
                      selection of the reload function a natural extension of that status                      
                      indication."  (Col. 2, ll. 10-15; col. 4, ll. 49-53; Figure 8.)  In                      
                      particular, Figure 8 shows a status indication and a reload function                     
                      combined into a "single composite graphic; e.g. a circular status                        
                      indication (or one of two or three indications) 35 within a Reload                       
                      button selector 36."  (Col. 4, ll. 49-53.)                                               

                 18. Figures 3 and 8 of Gong are reproduced below:                                             









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