Appeal No. 1998-1386 Page 21
Application No. 08/269,156
In view of this characterization, we are not persuaded
that the reference discloses the claimed limitation of
simultaneously or substantially simultaneously considering
character shape and context information. The absence of this
disclosure negates anticipation.
Regarding claims 1, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15, and 21, the
appellant argues, “traversal of the vocabulary trie from the
leaves back towards the root pertains to construction of the
vocabulary trie and not with reverse searching of paths that
comprise character hypotheses corresponding to received ink
data.” (Appeal Br. at 14.) The examiner replies, “Fujisaki
et al clearly teach the paths are reversed-searched
(traversed) in a direction opposite to the direction the data
was received (from the leaves back to the root) in column 19,
line 67-column 20, line 1.” (Examiner’s Answer at 15.)
Claims 1, 6, and 8, each specify in pertinent part the
following limitations: “the second search technique conducts a
reverse search towards the respective beginnings of at least
some of the paths developed by the first search technique
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