Appeal No. 2003-1177
Application No. 09/510,054
The Examiner relies on the following references in rejecting
the claims:
Meyerzon et al. (Meyerzon) 6,199,081 Mar. 6, 2001
(filed Jun. 30, 1998)
Schultz 6,208,988 Mar. 27, 2001
(filed Jun. 1, 1998)
Claims 1-3 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Schultz in view of Meyerzon.
We make reference to the final Office action (Paper No. 7,
mailed July 25, 2002) and the answer (Paper No. 10, mailed
December 4, 2002) for the Examiner’s reasoning, and to the appeal
brief (Paper No. 9, filed September 18, 2002) and the reply brief
(Paper No. 11, filed January 9, 2003) for Appellant’s arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
In rejecting the claims, the Examiner asserts that Schultz
teaches the steps of receiving metadata including plural elements
and weighting at least some elements to render weighted metadata
(final, pages 3 & 4). However, the examiner acknowledges that
Schultz does not teach the last step in claim 1 and relies on
Meyerzon for disclosing the step of providing the weighted
metadata to an index engine (final, page 4).
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