Appeal No. 2006-0567
Application 09/938,256
they appear not to be actually displayed to the user. Never-
theless, the underlying logic of Zhu is clearly a query-based
processing system as Zhu plainly states.
The three functional phases of Zhu are discussed
initially at column 5, lines 5-10. The second of these phases is
discussed as having two options beginning at line 4 of column 6.
The capturing of user preference understanding information is
stated to be derived by the use of various user interactions,
which in turn have two options to acquire user preferences. The
initial option is the query-based option which yields a response
set, such as discussed at the bottom of page 7 of the Answer.
According to the discussion here, it appears to us that the
artisan would have quickly realized that in figure 7, the system
is actually asking the user “do you want to supply me with your
preferences?” This is done by inviting the user to select or
enter a query image in S310. To the extent the desired image has
not actually been retrieved, decision block S337 also effectively
asks the user to enter specific examples and/or counterexamples
in step 340 by first effectively asking the question in decision
block S337 “do you have any examples or counterexamples for me?”
This is discussed at the bottom of column 7 of Zhu.
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