Appeal No. 2007-0220
Application No. 09/982,640
Skillen’s Abstract and the initial paragraphs of the Summary of the
Invention at column 1 indicate that the user is searching for “desired
information.” The scope of search of the user by means of search rules,
search arguments, search terms, search statements, or search criteria in
Skillen is not limited to the nature/topic of the information searched for or
the intent of the user (such as in claims 2, 7, 12, 19, 26, and 33). The
process itself of representative independent claim 1, for example, is not
different; the claim is only allegedly different in the nature of the
information or the characterization of it to which no patentable weight will
be given. Corresponding observations are appropriate as to Loeb as well.
Skillen’s advertising machine 10 in Figure 1 is also characterized as a
selling system at column 2, lines 11 through 32. Customers and advertisers
exercising buying and selling capabilities are taught generally at column 3,
lines 9 through 19; column 4, lines 64 through column 5, line 6, and column
6, lines 28 through 45.
According to the teachings of Skillen, the user is taught to be able to
enter information in various forms which may be considered a search
argument for use by various search engines in both figures of Skillen. There
are repeated teachings in Skillen of the user’s ability to do this in addition to
a feature taught associated with Figure 1 but explicitly shown in Figure 2 of
Skillen of the system of both figures assessing or otherwise keeping and
updating user profiles such as user profile database 48 in Figure 2. Because
the teachings of the operation of Figure 1 beginning at the middle of column
4 and the corresponding teachings of the operation of Figure 2 beginning at
the bottom of column 5 indicate the user preferences are sought, the user
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