Appeal No. 94-4200
Application 07/979,139
comprising an input port for receiving a plurality of time
dependent inputs, a processor for calculating from the time
dependent input a predicted value and a computer memory
associated with the processor. Furthermore, we find that
Appellant's claim 1 recites subject matter that constitutes a
practical application of a mathematical algorithm because it
produces a useful, concrete and tangible result by using a
specific machine to learn a time dependent pattern sequence
from receiving a plurality of time dependent inputs.
Therefore, we find statutory subject matter.
Claim 1 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second
paragraph. The Examiner argues that h is not clearly defined
i
and the language "a per input memory parameter" is unclear.
Analysis of 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, should
begin with the determination of whether claims set out and
circumscribe the particular area with a reasonable degree of
precision and particularity; it is here where definiteness of
the language must be analyzed, not in a vacuum, but always in
light of teachings of the disclosure as it would be
interpreted by one possessing ordinary skill in the art. In
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