Appeal No. 2006-2584
Application No. 09/797,754
We also will not sustain the rejection of these independent claims under
35 U.S.C. §103 because the addition of the Spencer reference fails to provide
for the deficiencies noted supra anent Fish.
With regard to independent claim 27, this claim does not explicitly call
for a “score” or for assigning documents or organizing documents. Rather, it
requires a machine-readable medium having a plurality of records and these
records each comprise two fields. A first field identifies a document and a
second field has a value, with that value corresponding to the “importance” of
that document, and further wherein the value is a function of both usage data
for the document and link information for the document.
The examiner ostensibly relies on Fish for the reasons supra with regard
to the other independent claims, but turns to Spencer for a teaching of the first
field containing a document identifier (pointing to column 10, lines 34-37) and
for a teaching of the second field containing a value corresponding to the
importance of the document, the value being a function of both usage data for
the document and link information for the document (pointing to column 10,
lines 37-41).
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