Appeal No. 95-1682 Application 07/853,459 Gerard Salton, Automatic Text Processing - The Transformation, Analysis, and Retrieval of Information by Computer, 238-240, 284-289 (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989) Edward M. McCreight, "A Space-Economical Suffix Tree Construc- tion Algorithm," 23 Journal of the Assoc. for Computing Ma- chinery, no. 2, 262-272 (April 1976) Claims 4, 8, 13 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Pustell and Maizel. Claims 6 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Pustell, Maizel and Aho. Claims 18 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Pustell, Maizel, Aho and Salton. Claims 21 and 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Pustell, Maizel, Aho, Salton and McCreight. 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007