Appeal No. 2000-1524
Application No. 08/943,711
We have reviewed the portions of Sarukkai identified by
the examiner but we do not find therein a disclosure or a
suggestion of the instant claimed subject matter.
In particular, it appears to us that Sarukkai uses a Java
program to access web pages but we find nothing in the
reference suggestive of a Java application “operable to
dynamically specify the grammar, to receive the result and to
perform an action based on the result,” as claimed.
The examiner points to Figure 3 of the reference, and it
is true that that figure discloses a box 34 which appears to
indicate that some language or acoustic model, as well as
speech recognition search parameters, are somehow updated or
modified. Since the Java program appears to be responsible
for the generation of a web-triggered word-set list and this
list is then used in some manner for the update or
modification, there may be some connection between the Java
application and speech recognition generating an updated
result. However, the specific connection is not clear from
Sarukkai’s disclosure and a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 102 may
not be based on speculation.
In any event, there is no clear disclosure in Sarukkai of
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