Appeal No. 2004-0213
Application No. 09/502,818
1. A system for automatically generating dynamic search
abstracts, comprising:
a crawler for crawling documents and acquiring metadata and
link information from the documents;
a metadata repository for storing the metadata acquired by
the crawler;
a link repository for storing link information acquired by
the crawler;
an abstract engine for generating abstracts of the documents
from the metadata;
an indexing engine for periodically indexing the metadata
and the link information;
a search engine for applying a search query to the metadata
indexed by the indexing engine, to generate a preliminary result
set containing selected abstracts; and
wherein the search engine inquires if the link repository
contains new link information about the preliminary result set,
and updates the selected abstracts based on the new link
information, if any, to generate the dynamic search abstracts.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Nasr et al. (Nasr) 6,263,332 Jul. 17, 2001
(filed Aug. 14, 1998)
Kravets et al. (Kravets) 6,363,377 Mar. 26, 2002
(filed Dec. 22, 1998)
Claims 1 through 22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kravets in view of Nasr.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 9,
mailed April 29, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
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