Appeal No. 1999-1852
Application No. 08/701,242
is said to be disclosed at column 8, lines 1-19 and column 9, lines 21-42 of the reference.
The recitation of “at least some of the data items being linked to at least one other data
item by specifying the identifier of the at least one other data item” is said to be shown at
column 8, lines 1-19, whereby the primary query construction subsystem supplies the
document identifiers for the answer extraction subsystem. The examiner identifies the
claimed “computer memory” at column 8, lines 1-19 of the reference, and the claimed,
“interactive retrieval means comprising means responsive to a user-provided identifier for
causing retrieval to the computer memory and display of the data item specified by the
identifier”, at column 8, line 59-column 9, line 5. The “means responsive to a user’s
selection of an identifier appearing in an already-retrieved data item for causing retrieval to
the computer memory of the linked data item specified by the identifier appearing in the
already-retrieved data item” is said to be taught at column 8, lines 1-19, and column 8, line
59-column 9, line 5 of Kupiec. The examiner identifies the claimed “observational
means...” as being taught at column 2, lines 39-50 of the reference and the claimed
“automated retrieval means...” is said to be taught at column 2, lines 39-50, and column 8,
lines 1-19, and line 59 to column 9, line 5 of
Kupiec. Finally, Column 8, line 59-column 9, line 5 and column 9, lines 55-61, and
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