Appeal No. 08/911,596
Application No. 2001-2049
reached.” The program can also be “configured to take corrective
action on its own, or merely suggest what should be done.”
While these cited portions of Greiner certainly appear to
describe capabilities closely related to what is presently
claimed, the instant claims include limitations which are not
taught by Greiner. For example, while Greiner may be said to
disclose the detection of availability of system resources
operable for storing data values, such as disk space, Greiner
teaches nothing about that availability of the resource being
able to be “selectively modified in response to execution of the
data processing application.” In Greiner, the availability of
disk space, for example, is what it is, and it may change during
execution of an application. However, there is nothing in
Greiner to suggest that that availability of disk space may be
“selectively modified.” The operator of the instant invention
can prune resources consumed by the dictated document and
persistent recognition data since the operator knows when he/she
has completed some text entry and no longer needs certain
information for subsequent correction of the text. The
operator’s actions constitute the claimed “selectively modified.”
The examiner’s response is that the selective modification
in the claim “states only that the resource ‘being able’ to be
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