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                Appeal 2007-0275                                                                              
                Application 09/313,278                                                                        
                                             THE INVENTION                                                    
                      The disclosed invention relates generally to the accessing of medical                   
                information and management.  More particularly, the disclosed invention                       
                provides an interactive virtual doctor system using a network (Specification                  
                1).                                                                                           
                      Independent claim 39 is illustrative:                                                   
                             39.  A method of providing one of the group consisting of                        
                      medical, veterinary, and other health care information on subjects of                   
                      interest to a user, the method comprising:                                              
                             accepting an inquiry from the user;                                              
                             determining a level of service based on the user inquiry; and                    
                             if the level of service is a first level of service:                             
                             determining a user sophistication based on the user inquiry;                     
                             searching a database at an initial level using the search request,               
                      in order to identify information requested in the user inquiry;                         
                             conditioning the search results based on the user sophistication;                
                      and                                                                                     
                             providing the conditioned search results at the initial level to                 
                      the user.                                                                               

                                             THE REFERENCE                                                    
                      Douglas   US 6,039,688  Mar. 21, 2000                                                   
                                                                   (filed Oct. 31, 1997)                      




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