Appeal No. 1999-2314
Application 08/739,200
made from expert data is modified using empirical data taken from
actual observations.
Representative claim 38 is reproduced as follows:
38. A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a
computer system to generate an improved belief network, the
computer system having a belief network generator and a belief
network containing nodes and arcs indicating a relationship
between the nodes, the nodes containing expert data obtained from
an expert in a field of expertise, by:
providing the belief network containing the expert data;
providing emperical data containing a plurality of
observations for nodes in the provided belief network;
calculating a score for each node in the provided belief
network utilizing the empirical data, each score indicating
goodness of the node at rendering inferences; and
using the calculated node scores and the belief network
generator to generate an improved belief network from the
provided belief network, the generation accomplished through
modifying the arcs of the provided belief network by removing an
arc between a first node and a second node and by adding an arc
between the first node and a third node, wherein a calculated
score for the first node in the improved belief network indicates
a higher goodness of the first node than the calculated score for
the first node in the provided belief network.
The examiner relies on no references.
Claims 38-59 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 101 as
being directed to nonstatutory subject matter in the form of a
mathematical algorithm or abstract idea.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the
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