Appeal No. 94-4200
Application 07/979,139
"means" clauses. Machine claims having means clauses may only
be reasonably viewed as process claims if there is no
supporting structure in the written description that
corresponds to the claimed "means" element. See State Street
Bank,149 F.3d at 1371, 47 USPQ2d at 1599 citing In re Alappat,
33 F.3d 1526, 1540-41, 31 USPQ2d 1545, 1554 (Fed. Cir.
1994)(in banc). This is not the case now before us.
When claim 1 is properly construed in accordance with 35
U.S.C. § 112, sixth paragraph, it is directed to a specific
machine. As demonstrated below, the relevant part of claim 1
is set forth with the brackets stating the structure the
written description discloses as corresponding to the
respective "means" recited in the claim.
1. A computer system for machine learning of a time
dependent pattern sequence y(t) comprising:
input means [input ports 115 shown in Figure 1 and
described on page 5 of the specification] for receiving a
plurality, indexed by i, of time dependent inputs x (t) and a
i
meta-step-size parameter 2;
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