Appeal No. 2001-0474
Application 09/001,117
a view generator that generates a view of said case base by
representing each case within at least a selected subset of said
plurality of cases within said case base as one or more view
tokens, all view tokens in said view having a uniform length;
an input parser that provides a tokenized representation of
an input incident, said tokenized representation including one or
more input tokens; and
a search engine that compares said input tokens with said
view tokens to identify one or more closely matching cases within
said view, wherein said one or more closely matching cases are
efficiently located by searching said view rather than directly
searching said case base.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Gupta et al. (Gupta) 5,822,743 Oct. 13, 1998
(filing date Apr. 8, 1997)
Brown et al. (Brown) 5,875,446 Feb. 23, 1999
(filing date Feb. 24, 1997)
Claims 1 through 32 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Gupta in
view of Brown.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
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