Appeal No. 2004-1117
Application No. 09/348,425
speech models to determine whether the results represent a
command or text. Further, the commands follow templates which
define the words which may be said within the commands and the
order in which the words are spoken (see column 4, lines 47-55).
In the example given in column 5, lines 25-29, Gould explains
that a command to move up two lines must be spoken as "Move Up 2
Lines," with no variation, because any variation would not follow
the template for that command. Similarly, Gould discloses
(column 8, lines 50-55) that "[u]ser's speech that does not
conform to a command template does not provide a valid recognized
command. A user's speech does not conform to a template if the
user does not speak permitted words in the predetermined order."
Thus, Gould's templates equate to the claimed command grammar by
which the command component is specified. Also, Gould's commands
include no dictation component that does not follow the
templates, for if they did, Gould teaches that they would not be
recognized commands. Accordingly, as Gould fails to disclose the
dictation component of the claimed commands, we cannot sustain
the anticipation rejection of claims 22 and 27 nor of their
dependents, claims 23 through 26 and 28 through 31.
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