Appeal No. 95-4187
Application 07/835,374
that Appellants' claim language only requires selecting the
element knowledge in accordance with the contents of the
harmonizing knowledge. Furthermore, we find that Appellants'
claimed "harmonizing knowledge" covers any knowledge for
selecting necessary element knowledge.
Tsuruta teaches a knowledge-based interactive train
scheduling system. On page 492, first column, Tsuruta teaches
that the system uses a multiple programming paradigm approach
in which the knowledge for the train scheduling is represented
by objects. Tsuruta further teaches strategy objects which
are objects representing strategies to attain goals or
subgoals of train scheduling. Therefore, we find that
Tsuruta's strategy objects meet Appellants' claimed element
knowledge.
Tsuruta further teaches another object called
actors. Actors are actor model knowledge used to select the
strategy. On page 492, first column, Tsuruta teaches that
the actor has knowledge such as goal, state, strategy, etc. as
shown in Figure 1. Tsuruta teaches that the actor models
train dis- patchers. In the second column of page 492,
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