Appeal No. 1995-3030 Page 12
Application No. 08/073,091
to select a most probable message input to a message
recognition system.
The examiner fails to show a teaching of the claimed
limitations in Korsinsky. Although the reference teaches
signals from a dictation division and a handwriting division
in a message recognition system, the signals are not combined
to select a most probable message that is input to the system.
To the contrary, the divisions perform their respective
operations "independently." Col. 5, ll. 57-60. More
specifically, "[e]ach word is recognized from handwriting or
dictation compared against
the contents of an unabridged dictionary for accurate
recognition." Col. 2, ll. 32-34 (emphasis added). The
results of each recognition, moreover, are stored in separate,
individual files. Col. 5, ll. 29-36.
Because Korsinsky teaches performing handwriting
recognition and dictation recognition independently of each
other, we are not persuaded that the reference discloses the
aforementioned limitations. Therefore, we reverse the
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