Appeal 2007-1595
Application 09/751,858
1 resolve many of the trade-offs inherent in static visualisations by
2 allowing multiple options to be available and most importantly for them
3 to be interactively related. (Dix, p. 124, left col., ABSTRACT).
4 25. Dix describes requesting more specific analysis of charts to reveal
5 detailed data and to dynamically make selections from larger data sets,
6 conventionally referred to as drilling down. (Dix, p. 126, right col.,
7 Interaction).
8 26. Dix portrays the applicability of its teachings toward distributions of the
9 number of hotels by star ratings for each of different geographic
10 locations, hence a frequency distribution1 of hotels with various star
11 ratings by location, in data visualizations (Dix, Fig. 5a, p. 127). The
12 disclosed embodiment of the claimed date gap analysis is itself portrayed
13 as a line graph of a frequency distribution (Specification: Fig. 4).
14 27. Dix shows several examples of analyses displayed in tabular or graphical
15 form, which are therefore control charts, in Dix, Figs. 5a & 5b and 6a &
16 6b (Dix, p. 127-28).
17
1 A set of intervals, usually adjacent and of equal width, into which the range of a
statistical distribution is divided, each associated with a frequency indicating the
number of measurements in that interval. The American Heritage Dictionary of
the English Language: Fourth Ed. (2000).
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