Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
sequence information identifying the position of the
text symbol in the series of text symbols which
comprise the document, and (iii) query symbol
sequence information identifying the position of the
query symbol in the series of query symbols which
comprise the query;
B. a match token sorter for sorting match tokens
generated by said match token generator according to
the document identifier information and the text
symbol sequence information associated therewith;
and
C. a query processor for identifying, using the query
symbol sequence information associated with the
match tokens as sorted by the match token sorter,
sequences of match tokens relating to a query which
satisfy the query, the document identifier
information of match tokens in the identified
sequences of match tokens identifying the documents
that satisfy the query.
The Examiner relies upon the following prior art:
Kucera 4,674,066 June 16,
1987
Dickinson et al. (Dickinson) 4,495,566 January 22,
1985
Claims 2-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by Dickinson.
Claims 7-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Kucera and Dickinson.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 12) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
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