Appeal No. 1998-1345
Application 08/362,318
determines whether the segment should be rated as "None,"
"Implied," "Explicit," or "Graphic" for each category and
these ratings are stored in a content descriptive structure
(col. 6, lines 27-37) which is used in deciding whether to
omit or add segments. Thus, any "detection" is done by a
human. Claims 3 and 4 require that the detection and blocking
be performed by an "interactive program object," which
excludes performance by a human. Moreover, the claimed
detection is done by the interactive program object monitoring
the text source (claim 3) or performing speech recognition on
the audio information (claim 4), which is not performed by
Abecassis. Because the claimed invention monitors the text
source or performs speech recognition, the detection can be
performed on broadcast information or video on demand, whereas
Abecassis requires the segments with objectionable language to
be pre-classified by a human, which means that Abecassis can
only work on pre-classified material. While the same ultimate
result of eliminating objectionable language may be achieved
in Abecassis (it is questionable whether omitting a segment
with objectionable language in Abecassis meets the limitation
of blocking the audio information since Abecassis eliminates
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