Appeal No. 1998-0665
Application 08/303,128
interpretation mechanism. The Examiner notes that VoiceType
discloses a system with microphone interpretation of voice
commands and voice data. Additionally, the Examiner notes
that White discloses a system with a microphone button which
allows the microphone interpretation mechanism to determine
when the
microphone signal represents commands. (Answer-page 4.) The
Examiner further states:
Accordingly, it would have been obvious to
utilize voice command/voice data capabilities as
taught by VoiceType in the input device disclosed by
Redford because Redford clearly is directed toward
providing meaningful audio input to the computer
(see column 1, line 67 to column 2, line 2; column
3, lines 45-49; column 10, lines 19-35). Further,
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill
in the art to provide a user controlled data button
and a user controlled command button in the combined
apparatus of Redford and Voice Type so that the
computer does not mistakenly interpret commands as
dictated text and dictated text as commands as
suggested by White. [Answer-page 5.]
Appellant argues that White’s limiting of the number
of possible commands, by selecting an object on the screen,
does not teach or suggest the claimed data and command buttons
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