Appeal No. 1997-0920
Application 08/274,123
match token sorter for sorting generated match tokens" (EA5)
as stated by the Examiner. Dickinson does not sort match
tokens "according to the document identifier information and
the text symbol sequence information associated therewith,"
i.e., according to the key value of the location of the query
in the document text base by document number and position.
Thus, we find that Dickinson does not disclose the claimed
"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."
Lastly, the Examiner finds the "query processor" to
correspond to the processing textual identifier blocks that
determine the sets of equivalent words in the text that
satisfy the query, referring to abstract, lines 1-13, and
column 9, lines 50-68 (FR2) and to column 29, lines 30-46 (in
claim 1 of Dickinson) (EA6). The Examiner fails to address
the following underlined claim language "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
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