Appeal No. 2007-0429
Application 09/848,430
IBM Dictionary 212 (copy enclosed). Definition (1) is broad enough, in our view,
to read on a chapter of an e-book that contains plural chapters, with the result that
such an e-book constitutes a “document corpus containing an ordered plurality of
documents” in the sense of claims 1, 5, 9, 13, and 15. The result of applying Call’s
conversion method to such an e-book is to generate a first vector in the form of a
first uninterrupted listing of integers corresponding to terms in the documents (i.e.,
chapters) such that each said document in the document corpus (i.e., e-book) is
sequentially represented in the first vector, thereby satisfying each of the
independent claims.
Dependent claims 18 and 20-22, which call for developing a dictionary
comprising the terms contained in the document corpus, read on Call’s display
term list 152 in Figure 1 (Call para. 32).
The remaining dependent claims recite -- or depend on claims that recite --
features not disclosed by Carr, including (a) developing a second vector or listing
indicating the location of each document’s representation in the first vector or first
listing (claims 19, 21, 23, and 25); (b) rearranging the order of the integers within
the data for each document so that all identical unique integers are adjacent (claims
3, 7, 11, and 17); and (c) developing a third vector or listing containing floating
point multipliers (claims 2, 6, 10, 14, and 16). Pursuant to the discretion accorded
the Board by 37 C.F.R. § 41.50(b), we have limited our consideration of new
grounds of rejection to the issue of anticipation by Carr.
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