Appeal 2006-2722
Application 10/209,626
Appellants’ invention relates to a system for fitness evaluation to be
used with a directly calculated or iterative optimization method for
automatic document assembly.
Claim 1, the only claim on appeal, reads as follows:
1. A system for evaluating, by generating a fitness measure value,
a set of variable data documents generated by an automatic document
assembly process, a set of variable data documents being a set of
documents having a portion corresponding to a predetermined content
and a portion corresponding to a variable content, the predetermined
content being the same in each document of the set of variable data
documents, comprising:
an input device to input document specifications for a set of
variable data documents to be generated, the document specifications
being represented as a set of relative weights;
a processor to generate a set of variable data documents;
said processor executing, for each variable data document, a set
of value-property functions to generate a set of value properties, said
set of value-property functions evaluating properties representing a
good design;
said processing determining an inferred intent vector for each
variable data document as a function of the set of calculated set of
value properties, said inferred intent vector is determined by a matrix
multiplication applied to a vector of value properties; and
said processor generating a fitness measure value by
multiplying components of the inferred intent vector by a
corresponding relative weight from the set of relative weights to
generate a set of products and summing the set of products.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art references to show
unpatentabity:
Simon US 2002/0040375 A1 Apr. 4, 2002
Kim Marriott, Bernd Meyer, and Laurent Tardif (Marriot), Fast and Efficient
Client-Side Adaptivity for SVG, International World Wide Web Conference
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on World Wide Web,
Honolulu, Hawaii, 496-507 (May 2002).
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