Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 2-16.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a text pattern
matching system and method for identifying ones of a plurality
of documents in a document text base which satisfy a query, as
described in Appellant's Summary of Invention in the Brief
(Supplemental), filed April 1, 1996 (Paper No. 19½), at page
3.
Claim 2 is reproduced below.
2. A text pattern matching system for identifying ones
of a plurality of documents in a document text base which
satisfy a query, each of said documents comprising a
series of ordered text symbols, with each text symbol
being represented by a text token, each query comprising
a series of query symbols, with each query symbol being
represented by a query token, said text pattern matching
system comprising:
A. a match token generator for generating a match token
for each text token whose text symbol corresponds to
a query token's query symbol, the match token
generator associating each match token with
(i) document identifier information identifying one
of said documents containing the text symbol
corresponding to the query symbol, (ii) text symbol
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