Appeal No. 2005-0418
Application No. 10/124,248
discloses an enabling disclosure for conversion from text to
voice-and-fax, and not for the reverse. It is appellants’
position that Klein is not enabling for a voice-and-fax to text
conversion and that the recitation that such is possible is
merely an invitation to try to search a non-text message for
signal samples having predefined characteristics, without any
disclosure as to how to accomplish such a function.
We are in agreement with appellants. The instant claimed
invention sets forth a specific method/apparatus for operating on
a non-text message, wherein the non-text message is searched for
signal samples having pre-defined characteristics, via comparison
of the samples with the pre-defined characteristics, and, when
signals having those pre-defined characteristics are found,
storing pointers pointing to the found signal samples in the
message.
The only embodiment described in detail in Klein is one in
which e-mail messages (i.e., text) are converted into voice-and-
fax messages. Thus, Klein operates on text messages, rather than
non-text messages. While Klein clearly implies that the
conversion may be performed in the reverse direction, there is no
specific disclosure in Klein as to just how to perform the
reverse conversion.
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