Appeal No. 95-1682
Application 07/853,459
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 4, 6, 8, 9, 13, 16 and 18 through 22. Claims 1
through 3, 7 and 17 have been canceled. Claims 5, 10, 11, 12,
14, 15 and 23 through 27 have been allowed. 2
Appellants’ invention relates to apparatus and
methods for interactively studying similarities of values in
very large bodies of data.
Independent claims 4 and 8 are reproduced as fol-
lows:
4. Apparatus for displaying similarities between
lines of text in a sequence of n lines of text, the apparatus
comprising:
means for representing a n x n matrix whether there
is a first mark in element (i,j) of the matrix if a comparison
of line (i) with line (j) indicates that line (i) and line (j)
have similar values; and
means for mapping the n x n matrix onto a display
matrix, the mapping being done such that second marks indicat-
ing significant first marks are displayed in the display
matrix.
2Supplemental Examiner's answer, paper 26, mailed
October 23, 1995, page 2.
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