Appeal No. 97-0642
Application 08/242,318
symbol or command, as described at column 17, lines 51-63,
meets claim 7 (EA8). Appellant argues that Sklarew merely
searches for the "best match" and does not perform any ranking
before selecting the top ranked candidate (Br17). We agree
with Appellant. There is no suggestion of any "ranking" of
candidate text strings in Sklarew. A "best match" comparison
merely replaces the old best match with a new best match and
does not retain the previous best matches in any sort of rank
order. Therefore, the rejection of claim 7 is reversed.
Issue C: Claims 8-20
Claims 11-15, 19, and 20
As a matter of claim interpretation, claim 11 does not
require that the recognizer produce a computer character from
the handwritten character, which computer character is then
converted to a second text domain; compare claim 11 to
claim 24. Therefore, we interpret claim 11 to cover
converting handwritten characters ("displayed characters of
the first text domain," as claimed) to computer generated font
symbols ("characters of the second text domain," as claimed)
as disclosed in Sklarew. The software in Sklarew which takes
the recognized character or command and converts it into the
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