Appeal No. 2000-0810
Application 08/699,412
The Rejection on Appeal
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable for
obviousness over Kucera and Ejiri.
The Invention
The claimed invention is directed to a computer implemented system and
method for identifying the language in which a document was written. In the
Background section of the specification, the appellants state:
In the prior art, for example, when an electronic document
was sent across national boundaries, computer system
operations were interrupted so that a human being could
determine the natural language of a received document
before a given operation such as selecting, displaying,
printing, and so forth which may be dependent upon the
peculiarities of an given natural language. In the context of
an internet search, unless the user is multilingual, he is likely
to be interested only in the retrieved documents in his native
language.
The invention described herein eliminates the need
for such human intervention by automatically determining
the correct natural language of the computer recorded
document.
The independent claims are claims 1, 8, 15 and 16. All dependent claims
depend either directly or indirectly from claims 1, 8 and 16. No claim depends from
claim 15. Independent claims 1 and 15 are reproduced below:
1. A method for identifying a language in which a computer document is written,
comprising the steps of:
2
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