Appeal No. 2007-0429 Application 09/848,430 We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. §§ 6(b) and 134(a). We reverse and enter a new ground of rejection. APPELLANTS’ INVENTION Appellants’ invention is a method of converting a document corpus containing an ordered plurality of documents into a compact form for storage in a memory. Figure 1 shows an example of a document corpus consisting of three documents. Appellants’ method involves assigning to the significant terms “name,” “fred,” “scott,” and “live” the integer numbers 1-4, respectively, as depicted in Figure 2: 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next
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