Ex parte BAKER et al. - Page 4




          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.                                 













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