Appeal No. 2005-0743
Application No. 09/351,723
from the second plurality of users, selecting the user for which a
grammar of the first at least one of the at least one utterance received
from the subject user most closely matches at least one of the set of at
least one grammar associated with the identifiers of the second plurality of
users;
verifying a voiceprint of at least one of the at least one utterance
has at least a similarity to the set of at least one voiceprint of the selected
user; and
responsive to the verifying step, providing the identifier of the
selected user as the identifier of the subject user.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Schier 6,246,988 June 12, 2001
(filing date Feb. 10, 1998)
Claims 25 and 32 stand rejected under the second paragraph of
35 U.S.C. § 112 because, in the examiner’s view, the claims are indefinite
for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter
which appellants regard as their invention. The claims are also rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. At the bottom of page 3 of the answer, the
examiner lists all claims 23-43 which are inclusive of the claims 23, 25, 30,
32 and 37 on appeal. They are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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