Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
acceptable misspellings and inflections of the query words and
those words which are synonyms of the acceptable misspellings
and inflections of the query words." (Col. 9, lines 36-42.)
The claimed match token must contain the following three
pieces of information: "(i) document identifier information
identifying one of said documents containing the text symbol
corresponding to the query symbol, (ii) text symbol 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." With respect to Appellant's token
structure in figure 2, these correspond to (i) the match
document pointer field 51, (ii) the match segment
pointer field 52 and the match document segment offset
pointer field 53, and (iii) for a match token, "the document
segment pointer 33 and segment offset pointer 34 identify the
offset into the query string or series of query symbols at
which the particular query symbol represented by the query
token is located" (specification, page 7, lines 2-5).
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