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                       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                       publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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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