Appeal No. 2003-0706
Application No. 09/356,241
Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection of independent claims 14,
24, and 25, as well as claims 15, 16, 21, 22, and 26 not separately
argued by Appellants, is sustained.
Turning to a consideration of the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of claims 27, 48, 50, 51, and 53-57, we note
that, while we found Appellants’ arguments to be unpersuasive with
respect to the Examiner’s rejection of claims 14-16, 21, 22, and
24-26 discussed supra, we reach the opposite conclusion with
respect to claims 27, 48, 50, 51, and 53-57. Each of the
independent claims 27, 55, and 56 in this rejected group of claims
is directed to the feature of a weighted feedback parameter which
is associated with keywords, and in which the ordering of records
uses only those weights associated with keywords that match a
search request.
We agree with Appellants (Brief, pages 12 and 13) that any
keyword associated weighting that may appear in Shoham or Rose is
not associated with a user feedback as required by each of
independent claims 27, 55, and 56. To the contrary, as pointed out
by Appellants, the keyword weighting in Shoham and Rose relies on
parameters such as the placement and frequency of occurrence of
words in a document, not on any feedback indication provided by a
user indicative of relative importance to the user of a particular
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