Appeal No. 94-3603
Application 08/001,121
page 11 of the Brief. Reference numbers 81a and 81b represent
different levels of the retrieval hierarchy which an operator
must search by choosing keywords to get at the image information
82a. Kita does not suggest string search, much less a global and
local search for a search string.
Crandall is cited as disclosing "a computer system which is
operator interactive having multiple operating screens that uses
a stylus pen inputting device (column 5, lines 18-28)"
(Examiner's Answer, page 10). Column 5 describes that the button
icons in figure 1 may be selected by a user with a mouse or with
a touch screen display. Crandall is not cited as showing any
search method or apparatus and we find that it does not disclose
anything relevant to performing a string search on file contents.
The combination of Kita and Crandall does not teach or
suggest performing the step of "a search is made through the
contents of each record" for a string as recited in claim 1,
"searching through the contents of each record" for a string as
recited in claim 20, "conducting the desired search of the
contents of each record" for a string as recited in claim 29, or
apparatus having "means for searching for a string in each of the
plurality of records" as recited in claim 33. Since neither Kita
nor Crandall perform a string search on the content of a file,
the combination is lacking a critical limitation of all the
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