Appeal 2007-1412
Application 09/822,152
The Invention
1. Appellant invented a censor method and system that reviews
documents for filtering selected sensitive terminology in said document.
(Specification 4.)
2. As depicted in Figure 1, the censor system uses a text comparator
(101) to match terms in the document (10) with prohibited or sensitive terms
in a censor database (100). (Id. 6.)
3. Upon locating sensitive terms in the document, a highlighter (102)
highlights those terms and visibly draws the user’s attention to such terms at
a graphical user interface display (103). (Id.)
4. Subsequently, alternate expressions (correlated with sensitive terms in
the censor database) of a more generalized nature stored in a generalization
database (104) are used to replace the highlighted sensitive terms. (Id.)
The Prior Art Relied upon
5. Lapierre teaches a censoring system for use with a closed caption
television. The censoring system includes a closed caption decoding device
for converting a closed caption signal into uncensored text. The censoring
system also includes a censoring device for deleting potentially offensive
words in the uncensored text that match words on a list of preloaded
offensive words. (Abstract.)
6. Lapierre teaches that the closed caption system is intended to remove
undesired words and phrases from the closed caption associated with
programming viewed on television. (Col. 1, ll. 24-31.)
7. Lapierre indicates that the censoring system is intended to remove
undesired parts of a program (i.e. objectionable language from the closed
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