Appeal No. 2001-2051
Application 08/923,293
means for filtering said database storage means using
said inputted user commands to obtain recommendations to a
user based on said inputted user commands.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Robinson 5,790,426 August 4, 1998
(filed April 30, 1997)
Payton 5,790,935 August 4, 1998
(filed January 30, 1996)
Claims 1-16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Robinson and Payton.
We refer to the final rejection (Paper No. 14) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the examiner's answer (Paper No. 21)
(pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the examiner's
rejection, and to the brief (Paper No. 20) (pages referred to as
"Br__") and reply brief (Paper No. 22) (pages referred to as
"RBr__") for a statement of appellant's arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Grouping of claims
Appellant states that the claims are grouped to stand or
fall together (Br5) and appears to argue mainly the limitations
of independent claim 1. We find the limitations of the
independent claims to be too different to be treated the same.
Hence, we address the independent claims separately.
The references
Robinson discloses an automated collaborative filtering
(ACF) system for recommending an item to a first user based on
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