Appeal No. 2002-1985
Application No. 09/351,208
sentence(s) that is consulted for translating words in subsequent
sentences that may be incomplete or have multiple meanings. A
translation information supply section retrieves the past
translated sentence with the largest sentence number (i.e., the
most recent sentence) and selects the meaning that is the closest
to the translated word in the most recent sentence (col. 4, lines
19-41). Asahioka further discloses that a “retrieval flag” is
added to the original word when translation by a dictionary alone
is not sufficient and translation information from the prior
sentence is needed (col. 4, lines 55-59). Therefore, although
the structural arrangement of a sentence to be translated may be
determined (col. 5, lines 56-65), the translation is still based
on the sentence structure information from the newest sentence
extracted by the information supply section (col. 6, lines 1-3).
We further find Appellant’s arguments differentiating the
claimed second indexed database including a predetermined number
of structural arrangements over the use of the “retrieval flag”
of Asahioka, to be persuasive. As discussed above, what the
Examiner characterizes in Asahioka as dividing the sentence into
subject, predicate and complement (answer, pages 10, 14 and 19)
is not the same as the structural arrangement corresponding to a
unique index entry in the second database. The structural
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