Appeal No. 2007-0429
Application 09/848,430
developing a first vector for said entire corpus, said first vector
being a listing of integers corresponding to terms in said documents
such that each said document in said document corpus is sequentially
represented in said listing.
THE REFERENCES AND REJECTIONS
The rejections are based on the following references:
Pirolli US 5,895,470 Apr. 20, 1999
Cohen US 5,950,189 Sep. 7, 1999
Call US 2002/0165707 A1 Nov. 7, 2002
(filed Feb. 26, 2001)
Claims 1, 5, 9, 13, l5, and 17-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) for
obviousness over Pirolli in view of Call (Final Office Action 3).4 Of the claims
rejected on this ground, Appellants specifically argue the language of only claim 1
(see, e.g., Br. 5). We likewise will limit our consideration of this ground of
rejection to that claim. 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii)(2005).
Dependent claims 2, 6, 10, 14, and 16 stand rejected under § 103(a) for
obviousness over Pirolli in view of Call and further in view of Cohen (Final Office
Action 7; Answer 9). Appellants argue these claims as a group. We will limit our
consideration of this ground of rejection to claim 2.
4 The statement of this rejection in the Answer at page 4 incorrectly fails to
mention claims 17-25, although they are addressed in the discussion of the
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