Appeal 2007-0976
Application 09/981,835
Appellants' invention relates to a system and method for linking
annotated words in a source document to the same words in a target
document and annotating the words in the target document in the same
manner as in the source document. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed
invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A system for processing documents stored in a database, the
documents including a source document and a target document, the system
comprising:
a storage device for storing a plurality of words, each of the plurality
of words stored as a result of being annotated in the source document;
a search device for identifying whether any of the words present in the
storage device are present in the target document; and
an annotation device for annotating said words located in the target
document in the same manner that they were annotated in the source
document;
wherein the source document and the target document are pre-selected
from the database as the source document and the target document by a user
of the system before the source document is annotated.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Daryl T. Lawton & Ian E. Smith, The Knowledge Weasel Hypermedia
Annotation System, Hypertext '93 Proc., 106-117 (1993). (Lawton)
Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, & Bill N. Schilit, Linking By Inking:
Trailblazing in a Paper-like Hypertext, HyperText 98, 30-39 (1998). (Price)
Gene Golovinsky, Morgan N. Price, & Bill N. Schilit, From Reading to
Retrieval: Freeform Ink Annotations as Queries, SIGIR '99, 19-25 (1999).
(Golovinsky)
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