Appeal 2009-3941
Application 10/334,370
topic. Thus the extremes can be simply YES and NO. This hierarchical
structure requires 4 classifiers having 4 different sets of training data, which
provide 3 or 2 qualities or axes for which the documents are given scores by
automatic or manual classification. The word stems and word stem
sequences in the subset of documents are identified to obtain the training
data which will give scores for the axes and the associated distribution of
word stem and word stem sequence scores across the groups as illustrated in
Figure 7. Thus the highest score for one of the qualities or axes will
determine the classification assigned (¶ 0162).
14. Figure 15 of Brown shows the classification of texts and
matching them to the user requirements are carried out remotely at the
premises of a cable television distributor (¶ 0168).
15. Yanagihara relates to document searching wherein stop words
used in the search queries are not considered in data searching and document
retrieving processes (col. 14, ll. 19-49).
PRINCIPLES OF LAW
1. Scope of claims
Absent an express intent to impart a novel meaning to a claim term,
the words take on the ordinary and customary meanings attributed to them
by those of ordinary skill in the art. Brookhill-Wilk 1, LLC v. Intuitive
Surgical, Inc., 334 F.3d 1294, 1298, 67 USPQ2d 1132, 1135-36 (Fed. Cir.
2003). The claim construction analysis begins with the words of the claim.
See Vitronics Corp. v. Conceptronic, Inc., 90 F.3d 1576, 1582, 39 USPQ2d,
1573, 1576 (Fed. Cir. 1996). Claims will be given their broadest reasonable
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