Appeal No. 2007-0429
Application 09/848,430
therefore correct to characterize Call as developing an “uninterrupted array of
integers corresponding to an occurrence of terms” (Answer), a characterization that
reflects the language employed in claim 5.6 The Examiner did not find that Call
discloses or suggests using the disclosed method to develop an array of integers
that represents a plurality of documents.
As evidence that it would have been obvious to use Call’s method to
generate a listing of integers representing a document corpus that contains an
ordered plurality of documents, the Examiner relies on Pirolli. Pirolli discloses a
system for analyzing the topology, content, and usage of collections of linked
documents such as those found on the World Wide Web (hereinafter, Web) in
order to facilitate information searching or improving the design of a web locality
(col. 1, l. 65 to col. 2, l. 1). A web locality is as “[a] collection of related web
pages associated with an entity having a site on the World-Wide Web such as a
company, educational institute or the like” (col. 3, ll. 41-43). Pirolli’s system
provides (a) categorization based on “feature vectors” that characterize individual
page information and (b) prediction of the need for (or relevance of) other Web
pages with respect to a particular context, which could be a particular page or set of
6 Claim 5, for example, reads:
5. A method of converting, organizing, and representing in a
computer memory a document corpus containing an ordered plurality
of documents, said method comprising:
for said document corpus, taking in sequence each said ordered
document and developing a first uninterrupted listing of integers to
correspond to an occurrence of terms in the document corpus.
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