Appeal No. 2005-0274
Application No. 09/738,319
known in the art that a variable is an instance of a data type. In this case Liddy
produces codes (abstract variables; Fig. 5, far right) of categories or concepts (abstract
data types) (i.e., the codes are instances of the concepts)” (answer-page 12).
We agree with appellants.
Liddy generates a conceptual representation of the subject content of a
document and that document may undergo additional analysis to provide other
representations such as the extraction of certain information (see the abstract of Liddy).
The input of Liddy may be considered an “input string,” as claimed. Moreover,
one may reasonably say that each such input string is linguistically analyzed to
generate a first representation of each input string, where these first representations
include “linguistic information,” as broadly claimed. However, we do not find any
disclosure, or suggestion, in Liddy of the claimed “skeletising each of the first
representations to generate a corresponding second representation for each of the input
strings; said skeletising step replacing the linguistic information with abstract variables in
each of the second representations.”
The examiner contends that the generation of both conceptual and term-based
alternative representations of the documents and queries with relevant information
extracted from the documents and indexed, described by Liddy at column 6, lines 15-20
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