Appeal No. 95-4187 Application 07/835,374 setting harmonizing knowledge represented as a data block for selecting and/or changing the element knowledge; storing each content of the harmonizing knowledge in a memory called a slot; selecting and/or changing the element knowledge in accordance with the contents of the harmonizing knowledge; and executing a plan generation and a problem solving by use of the element knowledge thus selected and/or changed. The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows: Setsuo Tsuruta et al. (Tsuruta), "A KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTERACTIVE TRAIN SCHEDULING SYSTEM -- AIMING AT LARGE-SCALE COMPLEX PLANNING EXPERT SYSTEMS," Int'l Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Indus. Applications, 490-495, IEEE (1988). Claims 1, 3 through 8, 11, 14 through 17 and 22 through 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Tsuruta. 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007