Appeal No. 1998-1386 Page 11
Application No. 08/269,156
designated DPP,” (Spec. at 4), and “the second of the two
search techniques, designated SBP ....” (Id.) Figure 6 of
the specification shows that the SBP search (234) is performed
after the DPP
search (200).
The specification also reveals that the DPP search
considers information pertaining to both character shape and
literal context. Specifically, the “DPP retrieves for the
node under consideration the character least-cost value " ...
for the symbol that now comprises the node under
consideration.” (Spec. at 13.) The least-cost value pertains
to character shape. The DPP search also retrieves “the cost
value, $, representing the trigram least-cost value ... for
the path node under consideration.” (Id.) The trigram least-
cost value pertains to literal context.
Furthermore, the specification reveals that the SBP
search considers information pertaining to both character
shape and literal context. Specifically, “the SBP search
first retrieves the nodes that occur at each end of the DPP
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