The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex Parte JEFFREY A. DEAN, BENEDICT GOMES, KRISHNA BHARAT,
GEORGES HARIK, and MONIKA H. HENZINGER
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Appeal No. 2006-2584
Application No. 09/797,754
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, BARRY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-35.
The invention is directed to document retrieval, and, more particularly, to
document retrieval employing usage statistics.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer implemented method of organizing a collection of
documents by employing usage information, comprising:
receiving a search query;
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