Ex Parte O'HAGAN - Page 2




                    Appeal No. 2003-2018                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 09/057,261                                                                                                                            


                    can be used to distinguish one sound from another.  The sequence                                                                                      
                    of phoneme codes is decoded into a literal string of words using                                                                                      
                    a phonetic dictionary and a syntax file.  See page 1 of                                                                                               
                    Appellant's specification.  These conventional systems are not                                                                                        
                    suitable for use in communication systems using mobile                                                                                                
                    communication units.  See page 3 of Appellant's specification.                                                                                        
                    Appellant's speech recognition system performs speech decoding at                                                                                     
                    the mobile terminal as compared to a host computer.  Appellant's                                                                                      
                    system utilizes a mobile terminal employing virtual Graphical                                                                                         
                    User Interface (GUI) pages to facilitate user interface.                                                                                              
                    Associated with each GUI file is a Hypertext Markup Language                                                                                          
                    (HTML) file, dictionary file which includes corresponding speech                                                                                      
                    recognition identifying data (e.g., phoneme files) and a syntax                                                                                       
                    file.  The dictionary files and syntax files are limited in scope                                                                                     
                    to provide for identification of commands associated primarily                                                                                        
                    only with the particular GUI file.  This greatly reduces the                                                                                          
                    memory requirements because the dictionary file(s) and syntax                                                                                         
                    file(s) are limited to words associated with the limited commands                                                                                     
                    and data which the user of the mobile terminal could validly                                                                                          
                    input in connection with a particular GUI file.  See page 4 of                                                                                        
                    Appellant's specification.                                                                                                                            


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