Appeal No. 1998-0630
Application 08/231,655
profile or "best guess" as to an "assumed shopper" who is most likely to use the system at a certain time.
Lastly, and most importantly, appellants argue (Brief, page 9) that "each reference only
discloses the use of a single factor, e.g., message content or time of day, to prioritize or select data,"
whereas claim 1 calls for ranking data based on a combination of two factors - an attribute-based
relevance factor (i.e., content), and a measure of correlation between a particular user’s interests and
the interests of other users who have also accessed the same information. We agree, and we find that
the examiner has failed to show that any of the applied references, whether taken singly or in any
combination thereof, taught or would have suggested basing a ranking of information on two factors
such as content and a correlation with other users.
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