Appeal 2007-0926
Application 09/818,303
term “video content”). (Specification, page 1 bottom to page 2,
top).
2. As disclosed, the method ascertains if a user’s question is
ambiguous and then asks the user a query (e.g., by a pop-up
message on the output device) to resolve the ambiguity.
(Specification 11). For example, during a scene when two
actors are on the stage, the user may ask “What other movies
has this actor been in?”; which question could refer to either
actor. As disclosed, the method would present a query to the
user, such as “Is the actor Captain Picard or Number One?”
(Id.). The user would make a choice (e.g., Captain Picard), and
“the query processing 60 can recast the query in the following
unambiguous form: “What other movies has the actor playing
Captain Picard been in?”.” (Specification 11, l. 14).
3. The Reimer reference also teaches a query system used for
accepting and answering questions about a movie or other video
program. (Col. 3, l. 34 ff). Users can ask questions of various
types, keyed to frames or scenes in the program (Col. 17, l. 28
ff). Reimer also faced the issue of ambiguous questions: “Note
that the question” “Who is this person?” is somewhat
ambiguous, in that it could mean “Who is the principle actor?”,
or “Who is the stunt double actor?”, or “Who is the character?”.
(Col. 16, ll. 55 to 58). Reimer approaches the ambiguity by two
possible solutions: first “by having a very detailed menu
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