Appeal No. 96-3699
Application 08/063,407
problems. Claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows:
1. A method of using digitally stored information to create ideas and solve problems,
comprising the steps of:
(a) receiving an input statement identifies a problem to be solved;
(b) identifying at least one word in said input statement, said at least one word being an object
of a verb, the action of said verb occurring upon solution of said problem;
(c) receiving a first data base that contains information relating to a first system and that relates
to said problem to be solved;
(d) receiving a second data base that contains information relating to a second system;
(e) locating an entry in said first data base that corresponds to said object;
(f) determining the hierarchical level of said entry in said first data base;
(g) obtaining data relating to a process from said second data base at said hierarchical level in
said second data base; and
(h) substituting said object for at least one word in said process data.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
Bourne 4,787,035 Nov. 22, 1988
Prager 5,255,386 Oct. 19, 1993
(filed Feb. 08, 1990)
The appealed claims stand rejected as under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Prager in view of Bourne.
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