Appeal No. 2006-2458
Application No. 10/147,673
In the reply brief, appellant argues that the probabilities in Horiguchi
are all used for matching an input, noting that the language of the claim
requires setting a “surface semantic output value” [reply brief, page 6, ¶3,
claim 11, emphasis added].
We note that the instant specification discloses that surface semantic
output (“<output>”) tags are provided within each rule, and also that when
a rule matches (i.e., “fires”) the tags and tagged values within the <output>
tags are placed as the surface semantic output [instant specification, page
10]. In particular, we note that Horiguchi’s system applies recognition rules
to a speech translation system that utilizes syntactic generation rules to
effect the translation from a first language to a target language (i.e., an
output language) whereby an output that is representative of the revised
version of the best hypothesis in a target language is presented to the user
[Horiguchi, col. 6, lines 1-13; col. 10, lines 46-53]. We also note that the
instant specification discloses surface semantic parsers 206 that utilize
device specific rules including linguistic grammars for speech and type inputs
[instant specification, page 9]. When we properly construe the language of
claim 11 in accordance with the broadest reasonable interpretation
consistent with the specification, we agree with the examiner that the claim
broadly reads on Horiguchi’s tokenizer 2102, tokenization rules 2152, and
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