Appeal No. 2000-0810
Application 08/699,412
respective count for each candidate language each time one of the plurality of words
from the document at issue is present in the associated word table; and (3) identifying
the language of the document as the language associated with the count having the
highest value. It is manifestly evident that the reference to “the highest value” concerns
the accumulated count for each candidate language, the only “count” previously defined
in these claims.
The examiner is correct in noting that the term “language” as is used in the
appellants’ claims is not limited to natural languages but is sufficiently broad to cover
various variations of genres of the same language. Note that the appellants’
specification on page 6, in the first paragraph of the Detailed Description of the
Drawings section, states:
In this specification, the term “language” means a
natural language, i.e. human language, used for human
communications, e.g., English, French, Spanish, German,
and so forth. The term “language”, as used in the claims,
also applies to “genres” within a natural language. Genre is
defined herein as a distinctive style of use of a language in
some specific context. For example, genre within English
includes technical writing, business writing, legal writing,
medical writing, fiction, and many others. Thus, genre
applies to different variations of the same language involving
different styles and manners of word use within a natural
language which are reflected in coded documents, and may
involve a distinctive use of standard words in a language or
may add new words to a language. Genre may reflect
particular jargons and dialects of a language such as High
German, Low German, and Swiss German, or as London
English and New York English.
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