Appeal No. 95-4187
Application 07/835,374
Before URYNOWICZ, THOMAS and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1, 3 through 8, 11, 14 through 17 and 22
through 25. Claims 2, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 18 through 21 have
been allowed.
Appellants' invention relates to a problem-solving
method and a problem-solving system using a knowledge-based
computer system for restoring a train schedule such that an
identical interval between running trains is guaranteed when
disturbances occur. The method and system require
circumstantial judgement.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A problem solving method comprising the
processing steps of:
storing element knowledge each represented as a data
block for denoting a goal or a subgoal or a strategy hier-
archically organized for problem solving, plan generation and
user guiding;
2
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