Appeal No. 2004-1117
Application No. 09/348,425
22. In a speech recognition system, a method of processing a
voice command comprising:
identifying a voice command having a voice command component
and a dictation component within a contiguous utterance, wherein
said voice command component is specified by a command grammar
and said dictation component is free-form text which is not
specified by said command grammar, and wherein said dictation
component is embedded within said voice command; and
executing said identified voice command component using at
least a part of said dictation component as an execution
parameter of said voice command.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Gould et al. (Gould) 5,799,279 Aug. 25, 1998
Claims 22 through 31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)
as being anticipated by Gould.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 18,
mailed October 8, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' Brief (Paper No. 17,
filed July 22, 2003) and Reply Brief (Paper No. 19, filed
December 8, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied prior
art reference, and the respective positions articulated by
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