Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
The textual block identifier in Dickinson has associated
with it a document number (e.g., Table 3, second column;
col. 8, lines 47-58) and, therefore, contains "(i) document
identifier information" in a data structure (token) which is
not shown.
The textual block identifier in Dickinson has associated
with it information about the paragraph number in which the
text symbol appears (e.g., Table 3, third column, col. 8,
lines 47-58), which corresponds to Appellant's match segment
pointer field 52. However, the textual block identifier does
not contain information "identifying the position of the text
symbol in the series of text symbols" within the paragraph;
the block identifier identifies a block of text, not its
precise location in the string of text symbols. The Examiner
does not address all the claim limitations. Perhaps the
limitation of "identifying the position of the text symbol in
the series of text symbols which comprise the document" could
be interpreted broadly to mean merely identifying the
paragraph rather than the exact position. The Examiner has
not tried to express such an interpretation. There is no way
such an interpretation could hold for proximity operations
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