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Sample Claim 1:
1. A method of rearranging icons on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system, the method comprising:
receiving, via the GUI, a user selection to organize each icon based on a specific criteria, wherein the specific criteria is an amount of use of each icon;
determining, by a processor, the amount of use of each icon over a predetermined period of time; and
automatically moving the most used icons to a position on the GUI closest to the start icon of the computer system based on the determined amount of use.
Sample Claim 2
2. A method of rearranging icons on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system, the method comprising:
receiving, via the GUI, a user selection to organize each icon based on a specific criteria, wherein the specific criteria is an amount of use of each icon;
determining the amount of use of each icon using a processor that tracks how much memory has been allocated to each application associated with each icon over a predetermined period of time; and
automatically moving the most used icons to a position on the GUI closest to the start icon of the computer system based on the determined amount of use.
1: Statutory Yes. The claim recites a series of steps Category? and, therefore, is a process.
Step
Analysis
1: Statutory Category?
Yes. The claim recites a series of steps and, therefore, is a process.
Step
Analysis
2A - Prong 1: Judicial Exception Recited?
Yes. Under the broadest reasonable interpretation, the limitation “determining ... the amount of use of each icon over a predetermined period of time” would include performance
in an actor’s mind. Thus, it qualifies as an abstract idea in the category of “Mental Processes.” Simply reciting
a generic processor is not enough to take the limitation out of the “Mental Processes” grouping.
2A - Prong 2: Integrated into a Practical Application?
Yes. The additional claim limitations recite a specific manner of automatically displaying icons to the user based on usage, which provides a specific improvement over prior systems and results in an improved user interface.
Thus, the claim is eligible because it is not directed to the recited judicial exception.
2B: Claim provides an Inventive Concept?
N/A.
2A - Prong 1: Judicial Exception Recited?
No. No claim element falls within one of the categories of abstract ideas. Unlike sample claim 1, its determining step requires action by a processor that cannot be practically performed in an actor’s mind, at least because
it requires a processor accessing computer memory indicative of application usage. Nor does the claim recite any mathematical relationship, formula, or calculation, or method
of organizing human activity, such as a fundamental economic concept or managing interactions between people.
Thus, the claim is eligible because it does not recite a judicial exception.
2A - Prong 2: Integrated into a Practical Application?
N/A.
2B: Claim provides an Inventive Concept?
N/A.
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