Appeal No. 94-3636
Application 07/889,660
retrieved by addresses attached to these titles and keywords in the secondary information storage
region (e.g., column 7, lines 23-27), not by a string search on the contents of the image information
which, of course, is impossible. The operator searches each menu to input the sort name and the
CPU reads out detailed names in the next lower menu until at last the picture information serving as
primary information is read out (column 3, line 49 to column 4, line 23). The CPU does not perform
a string search, but merely reads out the selected next menu or image file. Kita does not search the
object picture information for occurrences of the strings "Electronic File" or "Research Data." These
strings are titles or keywords associated with an object picture by the operator during registration
(initial storage).
Figure 13A relied on by the examiner shows the steps for retrieval of the covers of reduced
primary information. The operator chooses a cover search with cover search key 101 and manually
searches forward through the covers using the next cover search key 102 or backward through the
covers using the forecover search key 103 (column 7, line 12 through column 8, line 1). This
corresponds to a person manually flipping through the covers of files, which is clearly not a string
search. The examiner errs in finding that in response to operation of a key (Examiner's Answer,
page 15): "The search of the content of each searchable record of each searchable record of each file
that is associated with the search key is then conducted." The keys just go to the next (or previous)
cover or the next (or previous) page of object picture primary information. There is no searching of
contents of the primary information for a search string.
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