Appeal No. 97-0628
Application 07/992,428
Chang does not disclose or provide reasonable motivation to one
with ordinary skill in the art to attach a weighing factor to any
tag which is assigned to an associated topic "and" keyword. The
same deficiency is exhibited by Morita, which assigns a weight
value to keywords to determine the degree of relationship between
keywords for assessing the relevance level of the document
retrieved and not to any tag assigned to an associated topic
"and" keyword.
For the foregoing reasons, the examiner has not demonstrated
how the prior art would have reasonably suggested any of
(1) associating keywords with at least one predetermined topic,
(2) assigning a tag to the associated topic and keyword, and
(3) attaching a weighing factor to each such tag. Absent these
features, the examiner has not shown how the prior art would have
suggested providing a score indicating keywords present in the
article in relation to "said weighing factor" and "said tag," or
selecting those articles having the greatest such score. The
references individually have not been shown to have anything
substantial to do with paired topics and keywords or operations
thereon. The references in combination also have not been shown
to have anything substantial to do with paired topics and
keywords or operations thereon.
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