Appeal No. 2006-0567
Application 09/938,256
querying a user as to at least one attribute of an
image the user wishes to retrieve by posing a series of explicit
questions to the user;
receiving explicit user responses to the posed
questions; and
presenting at least one image to the user based upon
the user responses.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Kagami et al. (Kagami) 5,974,422 Oct. 26, 1999
Zhu et al. (Zhu) 6,345,274 Feb. 5, 2002
(filed June 29, 1998)
Claims 1 and 3 through 27 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies
upon Zhu in view of Kagami. The examiner has set forth a new
rejection beginning at page 5 of the Answer under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) of claims 1 through 27 [sic, 1 and 3 through 27] as
being anticipated by Kagami.1
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the Brief and Reply Brief for
appellants’ positions, and to the Answer for the examiner’s
positions.
1 As set forth at pages 2 and 3 of the Answer, the examiner
has withdrawn an outstanding rejection of certain dependent
claims under the second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112.
2
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