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Application 11472884

Document ISSUE.NTF

Mailroom Date 02/22/2012

Attorney Docket No. P2074

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PATENT NO.

8135699

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APPLICANT(s) (Please see PAIR WEB site http://pair.uspto.gov for additional applicants):

Puneet K. Gupta, Newark, CA; Mark A. Boys, Aromas, CA;

IR103 (Rev. 10/09)

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TITLE OF INVENTION: SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS Al'ID NIETHODS

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nonprovisiomll YES $870

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Electronic Patent Application Fee Transmittal

Application Number: 11472884

Filing Date: 21-Jun-2006

Title of Invention: SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

First Named Inventor/Applicant Name: Puneet K. Gupta

Filer: Donald Rex Boys/Sheri Beasley

Attorney Docket Number: P2074

Filed as Small Entity

Utility under 35 USC 111 (a) Filing Fees

Description Fee Code Quantity Amount Sub-Total in

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Pages:

Claims:

Miscellaneous-Filing:

Petition:

Patent-Appeals-and-Interference:

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Utility Appl issue fee 2501 1 870 870

Publ. Fee- early, voluntary, or normal 1504 1 300 300


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Miscellaneous:

Total in USD ($) 1170

Electronic Acknowledgement Receipt

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Confirmation Number: 5656

Title of Invention: SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS


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NOTICE OF ALLOWANCE AND FEE(S) DUE

24739 7590 11116/2011

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EXAMINER

PHAN, TUANKHANH D

ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER

2163

DATE MAILED: 11/16/2011

APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE FIRST NAMED INVENTOR ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.

111472,884 0612112006 Puneet K, Gupta P2074 5656

TITLE OF INVENTION: SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

APPLN. TYPE SMALL ENTITY ISSUE FEE DUE PUBLICATION FEE DUE PREV. PAID ISSUE FEE TOTAL FEE(S) DUE DATE DUE

nonprovisional YES $870 $300 $0 $1170 02/16/2012

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24739 7590 11116/2011

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APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE

1lI472,884 0612112006

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(Depositor's name)

(Signature)

(Date)

FIRST NAMED INVENTOR ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.

Puneet K. Gupta P2074 5656

TITLE OF INVENTION: SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

APPLN. TYPE SMALL ENTITY ISSUE FEE DUE

nonprovisional YES $870

EXAMINER ART UNIT

PHAN, TUANKHANH D 2163

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PUBLICATION FEE DUE PREVo PAID ISSUE FEE TOTAL FEE(S) DUE DATE DUE

$300 $0

CLASS-SUBCLASS

707-708000

2. For printing on the patent front page, list

(I) the names of up to 3 registered patent attorneys or agents OR, alternatively,

(2) the name of a single firm (having as a member a registered attorney or agent) and the names of up to 2 registered patent attorneys or agents. If no name is listed, no name will be printed.

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2 ________________________ _

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111472,884 0612112006

24739 7590 11116/2011

CENTRAL COAST PATENT AGENCY, INC 3 HANGAR WAY SUIlE D WATSONVILLE, CA 95076

FIRST NAMED INVENTOR

Puneet K. Gupta




P2074 5656

EXAMINER

PHAN, TUANKHANH D


2163

DATE MAILED: 11/16/2011

Determination of Patent Term Adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 (b) (application filed on or after May 29,2000)

The Patent Term Adjustment to date is 211 day(s). If the issue fee is paid on the date that is three months after the mailing date of this notice and the patent issues on the Tuesday before the date that is 28 weeks (six and a half months) after the mailing date of this notice, the Patent Term Adjustment will be 211 day(s).

If a Continued Prosecution Application (CPA) was filed in the above-identified application, the filing date that determines Patent Term Adjustment is the filing date of the most recent CPA.

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Application No. Applicant(s)

Notice of A 110 wability 11/472,884 GUPTA ET AL. Examiner Art Unit

TUAN-KHANH PHAN 2163

-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address-Ali claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application. If not included herewith (or previously mailed), a Notice of Allowance (PTOL-85) or other appropriate communication will be mailed in due course. THIS NOTICE OF ALLOWABILITY IS NOT A GRANT OF PATENT RIGHTS. This application is subject to withdrawal from issue at the initiative of the Office or upon petition by the applicant. See 37 CFR 1.313 and MPEP 1308.

1. [8J This communication is responsive to Amendment filed 8/30/2011.

2. D An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on __ ; the restriction requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.

3. [8J The allowed claim(s) is/are 1-

4. D Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.s.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).

a) D All b) D Some* c) D None of the:

1. D Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.

2. D Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. __ .

3. D Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this national stage application from the

International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)).

* Certified copies not received: __ .

Applicant has THREE MONTHS FROM THE "MAILING DATE" of this communication to file a reply complying with the requirements noted below. Failure to timely comply will result in ABANDONMENT of this application. THIS THREE-MONTH PERIOD IS NOT EXTENDABLE.

5. D A SUBSTITUTE OATH OR DECLARATION must be submitted. Note the attached EXAMINER'S AMENDMENT or NOTICE OF INFORMAL PATENT APPLICATION (PTO-152) which gives reason(s) why the oath or declaration is deficient.

6. D CORRECTED DRAWINGS ( as "replacement sheets") must be submitted.

(a) D including changes required by the Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review ( PTO-948) attached

1) D hereto or 2) D to Paper No.lMail Date __ .

(b) D including changes required by the attached Examiner's Amendment I Comment or in the Office action of Paper No.lMail Date __ .

Identifying indicia such as the application number (see 37 CFR 1.84{c» should be written on the drawings in the front (not the back) of each sheet. Replacement sheet{s) should be labeled as such in the header according to 37 CFR 1.121 (d).

7. D DEPOSIT OF and/or INFORMATION about the deposit of BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL must be submitted. Note the attached Examiner's comment regarding REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEPOSIT OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL.

AUachment(s) 1. [8J Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)

2. D Notice of Draftperson's Patent Drawing Review (PTO-948)

3. D Information Disclosure Statements (PTO/SB/08), Paper No.lMail Date __

4. D Examiner's Comment Regarding Requirement for Deposit of Biological Material

IT. P./ Examiner, Art Unit 2163

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

5. D Notice of Informal Patent Application

6. D Interview Summary (PTO-413), Paper No.lMail Date __ .

7. D Examiner's Amendment/Comment

8. [8J Examiner's Statement of Reasons for Allowance

9. D Other __ .

/Wilson Lee/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2163

PTOL-37 (Rev. 03-11) Notice of Allowability Part of Paper No.lMail Date 20111102

Application/Control Number: 11/472,884

Art Unit: 2163

DETAILED ACTION

This action is responsive to the following communication: Amendment filed

8/30/2011.

Claim 1 is independent claim.

Allowable Subject Matter

Claim 1 is allowed.

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The following is an examiner's statement of reasons for allowance: claim 1 when

considered as a whole, is allowable over the prior art of record. Specifically, prior art of

record fails to clearly teach or fairly suggest the combination of following limitations:

a summarizer function creating a summary simultaneously while receiving the

content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on a scale of

percentage of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter and

meanings of the original; and

a storage facility for data repository storing a text copy of the received content

and the summary created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the

source information wherein the software detects a shift of content during summarization

and the format of the summary is revised based upon the detected shift.

Conclusion

The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to

applicant's disclosure:

Li et al. (US Pub. 2006/0212897).


Art Unit: 2163

Hidaka et al. (US Pub. 2006/0184366).

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IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Art Unit: 2163 Examiner: Phan, Tuankhanh D

InRe: Case: Serial No.: Filed:

Puneet K. Gupta P2074 111472,884 June 21, 2006

Subject: Summarization Systems and Methods

Commissioner for Patents PO Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

Dear Sir:

Response E

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In the Claims

All of the claims standing for examination are reproduced below with appropriate status

indication.

1. (Currently amended) A summarization system executed by sofi.Nare stored on a

computer readable medium of an Internet connected server, comprising:

an Internet-connected server comprising a computerized appliance having a

coupled non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium;

software executing on the computerized appliance from the non-transitory,

machine-readable medium, the software providing:

a function of the sofuvare for receiving a live or recorded stream of voice content

having subject matter and meanings to be summarized, along with source information

identifying a location where the material was originally acquired;

a converter function of the sofi'Nare for converting the acquired material to

machine-readable text form, ifnot in that form when acquired;

a summarizer function of the sofi'tvare for creating a summary simultaneously

while receiving the content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on a

scale of percentage of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter and

meanings of the original; and

a storage facility for data repository storing a text copy of the received content


source information;

wherein the software detects a shift of content during summarization and the

format of the summary is revised based upon the detected shift.

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REMARKS

This response is to the Office Action mailed on 03/03/2011.

From the action:

This action is non final action in response to communication filed on 09 July

2010. Claim 1 is pending in the application. Claim 1 is rejected.

Applicant's response:

Acknowledged

From the action:

Response to Amendment

The Request for Continued Examination, filed on 7/09/2010, has been entered and

acknowledged by the Examiner. Claim 1 is pending.


Acknowledged

From the action:

Response to Arguments

Applicant's arguments with respect to claim 1 have been considered but are moot

in view of the new ground(s) of rejection.


Acknowledged

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From the action:

Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101

Claim 1 recites a system; however the components of the system are merely

software per se. A system claims must recite physical structure thus enabling it to be

properly categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention. Since the components

of the system claim 1 is software per se and do not contain any physical components, the

systems cannot be categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention and is thus

nonstatutory.


The applicant has amended claim 1 to recite that the system comprises a server

comprising a computerized appliance (a component of the system that is not software)

and a coupled non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium (also a component of the

system that is not software), and software executing on the computerized appliance from

the non-transitory, machine-readable medium. The system is distinguished from the art

cited and applied by the functions of the software. This system is quite definitely NOT

all software.

From the action:


Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated by Florencio et al.

(US Pat. 6,549,577), hereinafter Florencio.

Regarding claim 1, Florencio discloses a summarization system executed by

software stored on a computer-readable medium of an Internet-connected server,

compnsmg:

a function of the software for receiving a live or recorded stream of voice content


identifying a location where the material was originally acquired (Figure 2, "111"

receiving stream of media content);

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a converter function of the software for converting the acquired material to

machine-readable form, ifnot in that form when acquired (Figure 2, "128" a converter for

format converting);

a summarizer function of the software for creating a summary simultaneously

while receiving the content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on a

scale of percentage of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter and

meanings of the original (Figure 2, "142" and "143", a resizer to summarize the content);

and

a storage facility for storing a copy of the received content and the summary

created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information,

wherein the software detects a shift of content during summarization and the format of

the summary is revised based upon the detected shift (Figure 3, "360" "370" detecting a

change in content or format to revise the resizing operation).


The applicant asserts that this a fifth response to a series of actions in the present

case, and that this is surely enough time for the examiner to find and assert art that has

some real bearing on the claimed subject matter. The 102 reference Florencio in this

action is a system for allocating resources in a video stream decoder. There is no

teaching whatsoever of the summarization functions recited by the applicant in the one

claim standing for examination.

To overcome the 101 rejection the applicant has amended claim 1 to recite:

1. (Currently amended) A summarization system, comprising:

an Internet-connected server comprising a computerized appliance having a

coupled non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium;

software executing on the computerized appliance from the non-transitory,

machine-readable medium, the software providing:

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a function receiving a live or recorded stream of voice content having subject

matter and meanings to be summarized, along with source information identifying a

location where the material was originally acquired;

a converter function converting the acquired material to machine-readable text

form, if not in that form when acquired;

a summarizer function creating a summary simultaneously while receiving the

content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on a scale of percentage

of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the

original; and

a data repository storing a text copy of the received content and the summary

created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information;



For the recited "a function receiving a live or recorded stream of voice content ... "

the examiner cites an input buffer receiving a video stream. The claim clearly recites that

the incoming stream is VOICE. A video stream may indeed have a voice component, but

it is NOT a voice stream.

For the "converter function converting the acquired material to machine-readable

text form, if not in that form when acquired ... " the examiner provides a block to scan line

converter in the reference, which does not convert voice to machine-readable text form.

For the recited "summarizer function creating a summary simultaneously while

receiving the content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on a scale

of percentage of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter and

meanings of the original" the examiner applies Florencio Figure 2, "142" and "143", a

resizer to summarize the content. This "resizer" of Florencio is not a summarizer that

considers subject matter and meanings.

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For the recited "data repository storing a copy of the received content and the

summary created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source

information, wherein the software detects a shift of content during summarization and the

format of the summary is revised based upon the detected shift" the examiner applies

Florencio Figure 3, "360" "370" detecting a change in content or format to revise the

resizing operation. The examiner's wording" ... detecting a change in content or format

to revise" is convenient, in that the claim does NOT recite detecting a shift in format at

all. The claim only recites detecting a shift in content, which is the text content of the

summary. And in this application the examiner ignores the recited limitations of storing

the original and summarized text as separate files associated and cross-referenced using

the source information.

There are two possibilities for this rejection that is so completely off the mark.

One is that the examiner simply does not understand the invention, even in context of the

specification, which is to be consulted for the meaning of the limitations of the claim, or

the examiner does understand the invention, and is of the opinion that the claim language

is not specific enough to clearly recite the subject matter believed to be patentable. If the

first possibility is true, then the examiner needs to solicit help in the office to be able to

understand the invention. If the second is true, then a better approach might be to simply

say so, and cite specific instances of language that the examiner considers to be vague,

and the proper rejection might be a 112 rejection, instead of applying art that is so far

removed from the meaning of the claim.

In any case the claim, as amended, is clearly patentable over Florencio, which

teaches no limitation of the claim.

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Summary

As claim 16, as amended and argued above, has been shown to be patentable over

the art presented by the Examiner, applicant respectfully requests reconsideration and the

case be passed quickly to issue.

If any fees are due beyond fees paid with this amendment, authorization is made

to deduct those fees from deposit account 50-0534. If any time extension is needed

beyond any extension requested with this amendment, such extension is hereby

requested.

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The Request for Continued Examination, filed on 7/09/2010, has been entered

and acknowledged by the Examiner. Claim 1 is pending.





35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:

Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

a. Based on Supreme Court precedent and recent Federal Circuit decisions on

the process claims in light of Bilski, the method claims or a § 101 process must (1) be

tied to another statutory class (a particular machine or apparatus) or (2) transform

underlying subject matter (such as an article or materials) to a different state or thing. If

neither of these requirements is met by the claim, the method is not a patent eligible

process under § 101 and should be rejected as being directed to non-statutory subject

matter. A method claim that would not qualify as a statutory process would be a claim

that recited purely mental steps. Thus, to qualify as a § 101 statutory process, the claim

should positively recite the other statutory class (the thing or product) to which it is tied,

for example by identifying the apparatus that accomplishes the method steps, or

positively recite the subject matter that is being transformed, for example by identifying

the material that is being changed to a different state. Further, "Identifying the


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apparatus" requires that the process claim or method claim explicitly recites the

particular machine or apparatus, or recite a step that inherently involves the use

of a particular machine or apparatus.

Claim 1 recites a system; however the components of the system are merely

software per se. A system claims must recite physical structure thus enabling it to be

properly categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention. Since the

components of the system claim 1 is software per se and do not contain any physical

components, the systems cannot be categorized in one of the statutory categories of

invention and is thus nonstatutory.


The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that

form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:

A person shall be entitled to a patent unless -

(b) the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of application for patent in the United States.

Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 1 02(b) as being anticipated by Florencio et

al. (US Pat. 6,549,577), hereinafter Florencio.

Regarding claim 1, Florencio discloses a summarization system executed by


comprising:

a function of the software for receiving a live or recorded stream of voice content


identifying a location where the material was originally acquired (Figure 2, "111"


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machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired (Figure 2, "128" a converter

for format converting);

a summarizer function of the software for creating a summary simultaneously

while receiving the content, the summary having a format, condensing the summary on

a scale of percentage of the whole of the content while maintaining the subject matter

and meanings of the original (Figure 2, "142" and "143", a resizer to summarize the

content); and

a storage facility for storing a copy of the received content and the summary

created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source

information, wherein the software detects a shift of content during summarization and

the format of the summary is revised based upon the detected shift (Figure 3, "360"

"370" detecting a change in content or format to revise the resizing operation).

Conclusion


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Puneet K. Gupta et al. P2074 111472,884 0612112006

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In the claims:

All of the claims standing for examination are presented below with appropriate status

indication.

1. (Currently amended) A summarization system executed by software stored on a

computer-readable medium of an Internet-connected server, comprising:

a function of the software for acquiring receiving a live or recorded stream of

voice content material having subject matter and meanings to be summarized, along with

source information identifying the ~location where the material was originally acquired;


machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired;

a summarizer function of the software for creating a summary from the acquired

material simultaneously while receiving the content, the summary having a format,

condensing the material summary on a scale of percentage of the whole of the material

content while maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original; and

a storage facility for storing a copy of the acquired material received content and

the summary created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source

information;



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Remarks

The present Response is to the Office Action mailed 03/0912010, made final.

Claim 1 is presented for examination.


Applicant's arguments filed 04/0712010 have been fully considered but they are

not persuasive.

Issue: The Applicants argue that Wilmot fails to teach or suggest; "a function of

the software for acquiring material having subject matter and meanings to be

summarized, along with source information identifying the location where the material

was acquired; and a storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the


information. Applicant argues that the source information, as claimed, is important

especially when cross- referencing summaries to the original material, at its original

source; i.e. where it was acquired.

Response: The examiner respectfully disagrees with the Applicants because the

text converter of Wilmot et al. as disclosed in ~ [0030], line 4 that could be necessary

developing using programming and engineering techniques to implement software

functions (~[0019]) in view of Hwang for a function acquiring material (~ [0030], lines

16-20) to summarize a text summary and the relevant textual summary with contents that

can be later retrieved (Wilmot et al ~ [0030], lines 4-9). Thus, Applicants' argument is not

persuasive and claim 1 stands rejected.


Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilmot et

al. (PG Pub. 2002/0147592), in view of Hwang et al. (US Pub. 2002/0078090),

hereinafter Hwang.

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Regarding claim 1, Wilmot et al. disclose a summarization system executed by


compnsmg:

a function of the software for acquiring material having subject matter and

meanings to be summarized (~ [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material with for providing

text summary), along with source information identifying the location where the material

was acquired (~ [0030], lines 4-8; the text summary with a link);


machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired (Wilmot et al.,~ [0030], line 4,

a text converter);


material, condensing the material on a scale of percentage of the whole of the material

while maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original (Wilmot et al., ~

[0030], lines 4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant textual summary and

contents that can be retrieved); and

a storage facility for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary

created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information

(Wilmot et al., ~ [0030]; an index for files associated with source information being

stored in database);

Wilmot et al. do not explicitly disclose a function for acquiring material to be

summarized and condensing on a scale of percentage. However, in the same field of

endeavor, Hwang discloses an acquiring material to be converted and summarized and

condensing the material on a scale of percentage (~ [0033]; lines 16-20). It would have

been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to

incorporate scanning function disclosed by Hwang into the conversion system taught by

Wilmot et al. for the motivation of setting a threshold of matching degree, so that the

sufficiency of processing document is archived.

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Applicant herein amends the claim to reflect the teaching demonstrated in

applicant's Fig. 5. Applicant's specification teaches at act 507 voice input continues while

summarization continues. At act 508 a determination is made whether the content being

received and parsed for summary is shifting in theme, perhaps requiring some

modification or reorganization in the rendered summary text. If not in act 508, then the

process loops back to act 507 and then back to act 508 repeatedly until there is some shift

in theme or new content that shifts away from the current summarized content. It is

important to note herein that it is certainly possible that a summary may be completed

without determining a positive at act 508. However, it is highly likely that a summary

begun before all of the text has been acquired will need some revision before

presentation. For example, with voice input is likely that a salient or important point may

be brought up out of order of importance later in the input stream. This feature accounts

for that possibility and enables the system to reprioritize the summary points. At act 508,

if there is some shifting of content that might warrant a revision of the format of a

summary and/or the text reserved for that summary then at act 509, the system may

perform a revision or an adjustment to what has already been rendered as text and

reserved for summary presentation.

Applicant argues the art produced, thus far, by the Examiner fails to teach or

suggest claim 1, as amended. Applicant believes that claim 1 is patentable over the art.

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Summary

As all of the claims, as amended and argued above, have been shown to be

patentable over the art presented by the Examiner, applicant respectfully requests

reconsideration and the case be passed quickly to issue.



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The Amendment, filed on 01/07/2010, has been entered and acknowledged by

the Examiner. Claim1 is pending.


Applicant's arguments filed 04/07/2010 have been fully considered but they are

not persuasive.

Issue: The Applicants argue that Wilmot fails to teach or suggest; "a function of

the software for acquiring material having subject matter and meanings to be

summarized, along with source information identifying the location where the material

was acquired; and a storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the


information. Applicant argues that the source information, as claimed, is important

especially when cross- referencing summaries to the original material, at its original

source; i.e. where it was acquired.

Response: The examiner respectfully disagrees with the Applicants because the

text converter of Wilmot et al. as disclosed in ,-r [0030], line 4 that could be necessary

developing using programming and engineering techniques to implement software

functions (,-r[0019]) in view of Hwang for a function acquiring material (,-r [0030], lines 16-

20) to summarize a text summary and the relevant textual summary with contents that

can be later retrieved (Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030], lines 4-9). Thus, Applicants' argument is

not persuasive and claim 1 stands rejected.


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The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 1 03(a) which forms the basis for all

obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:

(a) A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.



hereinafter Hwang.

Regarding claim 1, Wilmot et al. disclose a summarization system executed by


comprising:


meanings to be summarized (,-r [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material with for providing

text summary), along with source information identifying the location where the

material was acquired (,-r [0030], lines 4-8; the text summary with a link);


machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired (Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030], line 4,

a text converter);


material, condensing the material on a scale of percentage of the whole of the material

while maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original (Wilmot et ai., ,-r


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[0030], lines 4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant textual summary

and contents that can be retrieved); and

a storage facility for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary


(Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030]; an index for files associated with source information being

stored in database);




condensing the material on a scale of percentage (,-r [0033]; lines 16-20). It would have





Conclusion

THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time

policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).

A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE

MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within

TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not

mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the

shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any


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the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later

than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.


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Dear Sir:

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In the claims:


indication.

1. (Currently amended) A server side summarization system executed by software stored

on a computer-readable medium of an Internet-connected server, comprising:


meanings to be summarized, along with source information identifying the location ef...t:hs

where the material was acquired;


machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired;

a computerized summarizer function of the software for creating a summary from

the acquired material, condensing the material on a scale of percentage of the whole of

the material while maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original; and

a storage function facility for storing a copy of the acquired material and the


information.

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Remarks

The present Response is to the Office Action mailed 10107/2009. Claim 1 is

presented for examination.


a. Based on Supreme Court precedent and recent Federal Circuit decisions on the

process claims in light of Bilski, the method claims or a § 101 process must (1) be tied to

another statutory class (a particular machine or apparatus) or (2) transform underlying

subject matter (such as an article or materials) to a different state or thing. If neither of

these requirements is met by the claim, the method is not a patent eligible process under §

101 and should be rejected as being directed to non-statutory subject matter. A method

claim that would not qualify as a statutory process would be a claim that recited purely

mental steps. Thus, to qualify as a § 101 statutory process, the claim should positively

recite the other statutory class (the thing or product) to which it is tied,for example by

identifying the apparatus that accomplishes the method steps, or positively recite the

subject matter that is being transformed, for example by identifying the material that is

being changed to a different state. Further, "Identifying the apparatus" requires that the

process claim or method claim explicitly recites the particular machine or apparatus,

or recite a step that inherently involves the use of a particular machine or apparatus.

b. Claim 1 recites a system; however the components of the system are merely

software per se. A system claims much recite physical structure thus enabling it to be

properly categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention. Since the components

of the system claim 1 is software per se and do not contain any physical components, the

systems cannot be categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention and is thus

nonstatutory.


Applicant herein amends claim 1 to recite that the system is provided by executing

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software stored on a computer-readable medium of an Internet-connected server. The

summarizing functions in the body of the claim performed by the software. Applicant

believes claim 1, as amended, is tied to another statutory class (a particular machine or

apparatus) and therefore is statutory.


Claim 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.c. 103(a) as being unpatentable over Wilmot et

aI. (PG Pub. 2002/0147592), in view of Hwang et aI. (US Pub. 2002/0078090),

hereinafter Hwang.

Regarding claim 1, Wilmot et aI. disclose a server-side summarization system,

compnsmg:

a function for acquiring material having subject matter and meanings to be

summarized (<JI [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material with for providing text summary),

along with source information identifying the location of the material (<JI [0030], lines 4-8;

the text summary with a link);

Wilmot et aI. do not explicitly disclose a function for acquiring material to be



condensing the material on a scale of percentage (<JI [0033]; lines 16-20). It would have



Wilmot et aI. for the motivation of setting a threshold of matching degree, so that the


a converter for converting the acquired material to machine-readable form, if not

in that form when acquired (Wilmot et aI., <JI [0030], line 4, a text converter);

a computerized summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material,

condensing the material on a scale of percentage of the whole of the material while

maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original (Wilmot et aI., <JI [0030], lines

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4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant textual summary and contents

that can be retrieved); and

a storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary


(Wilmot et aI., <JI [0030]; an index for files associated with source information being

stored in database).


Applicant herein amends claim 1 to specifically recite that the location

information refers to the location where the material was acquired. In applicant's

invention documents may be stored on a data network where the system locates the

document on the network, for example by URL, summarizes the document directly from

the source and then presents the summarized document to a user.

Applicant argues that Wilmot fails to teach or suggest; "a function of the software

for acquiring material having subject matter and meanings to be summarized, along with

source information identifying the location where the material was acquired; and a

storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary created as

separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information. Applicant

argues that the source information, as claimed, is important especially when cross

referencing summaries to the original material, at its original source; i.e. where it was

acquired.

Applicant believes that claim 1 is patentable over the art provided by the

Examiner at least for the argument provided regarding Wilmont, above.

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Summary

As all of the claims, as amended and argued above, have been shown to be

patentable over the art presented by the Examiner, applicant respectfully requests

reconsideration and the case be passed quickly to issue.








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35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:

Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

a. Based on Supreme Court precedent and recent Federal Circuit decisions on

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tied to another statutory class (a particular machine or apparatus) or (2) transform

underlying subject matter (such as an article or materials) to a different state or thing. If

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apparatus" requires that the process claim or method claim explicitly recites the

particular machine or apparatus, or recite a step that inherently involves the use

of a particular machine or apparatus.

b. Claim 1 recites a system; however the components of the system are merely

software per se. A system claims much recite physical structure thus enabling it to be

properly categorized in one of the statutory categories of invention. Since the

components of the system claim 1 is software per se and do not contain any physical

components, the systems cannot be categorized in one of the statutory categories of

invention and is thus nonstatutory.







hereinafter Hwang.

Regarding claim 1, Wilmot et al. disclose a server-side summarization system,

comprising:


summarized (,-r [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material with for providing text


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summary), along with source information identifying the location of the material (,-r

[0030], lines 4-8; the text summary with a link);




condensing the material on a scale of percentage (,-r [0033]; lines 16-20). It would have






in that form when acquired (Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030], line 4, a text converter);



maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original (Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030],

lines 4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant textual summary and

contents that can be retrieved); and






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In the claims:


indication.

1. (Currently amended) A server-side summarization system comprising:

a function for acquiring material having subj ect matter and meanings to be

summarized, along with source information a1:3ffilt identifying the location of the material;


in that form when acquired;


reducing the bulk of condensing the material on a scale of percentage of the whole of the

material while maintaining meanings and aspects the subj ect matter and meanings of the

original; and


created as separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information.

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REMARKS

The present Response is to the Office Action mailed 01/13/2009, made final.

Claim 1 is presented for examination.


From the action:

Applicant's arguments filed 8/25/2008 have been fully considered but they are not

persuaSIve.

Issue: The Applicant argues that Wilmot does not teach text summarization, but

an indexing function which pulls sections out of the text and associates the text with a

voice portion of the text. Plus, Wilmot means the original voice file, not source

information about the material being acquired and summarized as claimed.

Response: The examiner respectfully disagrees with the Applicant because the

source of information about the material being acquired and summarized of claimed

invention is equivalent to the source of information which can be audio, speech, or

information materials (~ [0006]) to be acquired. Thus, Applicant's argument is not

persuaSIve.


Applicant herein amends claim 1 in order to clarify the subj ect matter of the

limitations for a reasonable interpretation and application of the art by the Examiner.

From the action:



al. (PG Pub. 2002/0147592), in view of Abbruzzese et al. (US Pat. 5,557,515).


comprising: getting material to be summarized (~ [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material

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with for providing text summary), along with source information about the material (~

[0030], lines 4-8; the text summary);


summarized. However, in the same field of endeavor, Abbruzzese et al. disclose an

acquiring material to be converted and summarized (Figure 13. scanning function; Col.

14, lines 62-67). It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time

the invention was made to incorporate scanning function disclosed by Abbruzzese et al.

into the conversion system taught by Wilmot et al. for the motivation of enhancing both

image and voice conversions, so that capability of processing an image document is not

limited.


in that form when acquired (Wilmot et aI., ~ [0030], line 4, a text converter);


reducing the bulk of the material while maintaining meanings and aspects of the original

(Wilmot et aI., ~ [0030], lines 4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant

textual summary and contents that can be retrieved); and



(Wilmot et aI., ~ [0030]; an index for files associated with source information being



Applicant herein amends claim 1 to recite:

1. A server-side summarization system comprising:


summarized, along with source information identifYing the location of the material;




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maintaining the subject matter and meanings of the original; and



Applicant argues that Wilmot fails to teach or suggest; "a function for acquiring

material having subject matter and meanings to be summarized, along with source

information identifying the location of the material; and a storage function for storing a

copy of the acquired material and the summary created as separate files, associated and

cross-referenced using the source information. The portion of Abbruzzese referenced by

the Examiner is a limited teaching of OCR scanning an incoming fax. In this instance

there would be absolutely no incentive to identify the source of the document, as once a

fax is received it is local.

The Examiner states that the source of information about the material being

acquired and summarized of claimed invention is equivalent to the source of information

which can be audio, speech, or information materials in the art of Wilmot. Applicant has

clarified the claim to recite that the source information identifies the location of the

material. Applicant's invention teaches that material may be acquired locally, on one of a

plurality of available networks and servers. Therefore, the source information, as claimed

is important, especially when cross-referencing summaries to the original material, at its

original source.

Applicant believes Wilmot does not teach text summarization, as claimed in

applicant's invention. In applicant's invention the summary condenses the material on a

scale of percentage of the whole of the material while maintaining the subject matter and

meanings of the original material. Applicant's specification teaches a user can select the

level of summarization he wishes to extract from the source document. The level is

selected via the use of a percentage slider bar to indicate a percentage level of desired

summarization. The server aided by software navigates to the document and downloads

the full text version and summarizes the document according to configured user

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preferences if any. If the user has not indicated exact preferences then a default

summarization template may be used instead. In one embodiment, a percentage-based

summarization scale 215 is provided within interface 200. Summarization scale 215

enables a user to pre-select a percentage of summarization for a document. Scale 215 may

be graduated from 0% to 100 % and a slider button on the scale may be manipulated to

set a specific percentage.

Wilmot clearly teaches an indexing function which merely converts voice signals

into text, the text representing every word of the portions of the voice file, and associates

the text with the voice file, as received. In this manner the document is searchable in

sections, but the sections are not summarized, from a bulk form, nor is the text document

of Wilmot. Merely chopping up a document into searchable portions, wherein when the

portions reassembled reproduce the original document, does not constitute

"summarization" as understood in the art, and as taught and claimed in applicant's

invention.

Further, applicant's claim limitation of "storing a copy of the acquired material


source information." has not been shown in the art. The source information referred to in

[0030] of Wilmot means the original voice file, not source information about the material

being acquired and summarized, as claimed. Therefore, the "information from the

original session" as espoused by the Examiner does not equate to the source information

about the material being acquired and summarized, as claimed. Therefore, Applicant

believes claim 1, as amended, is easily patentable over the art provided by the Examiner.

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As claim 1, as amended and argued above, has been shown to be patentable over

the art presented by the Examiner, applicant respectfully requests reconsideration and the

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111472,884 06/2112006

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Puneet K. Gupta




P2074 5656

EXAMINER

PHAN, TUANKHANH D


2163

MAIL DATE DELIVERY MODE

04/13/2009 PAPER



PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)


11/472,884 GUPTA ET AL.







Status

1)1ZI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 25 August 2008.

2a)1ZI This action is FINAL. 2b)0 This action is non-final.










Application Papers














Attachment(s)

1) 0 Notice of References Cited (PTO-B92)






6) 0 Other: __ .



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DETAILED ACTION


Page 2

The Amendment, filed on 8/25/2008, has been entered and acknowledged by the

Examiner. Claim 1 is pending.

In a communication with the Applicant's representative, the examiner indicated to

disregard the Office Action, mailed out 11/17/2008, due to an error.


Applicant's arguments filed 8/25/2008 have been fully considered but they are

not persuasive.

Issue: The Applicant argues that Wilmot does not teach text summarization, but

an indexing function which pulls sections out of the text and associates the text with a

voice portion of the text. Plus, Wilmot means the original voice file, not source

information about the material being acquired and summarized as claimed.

Response: The examiner respectfully disagrees with the Applicant because the

source of information about the material being acquired and summarized of claimed

invention is equivalent to the source of information which can be audio, speech, or

information materials (,-r [0006]) to be acquired. Thus, Applicant's argument is not

persuasive.




(a) A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the


Art Unit: 2163

Page 3

invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.




comprising: getting material to be summarized (,-r [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material

with for providing text summary), along with source information about the material (,-r









limited.


in that form when acquired (Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030], line 4, a text converter);


reducing the bulk of the material while maintaining meanings and aspects of the original

(Wilmot et ai., ,-r [0030], lines 4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant

textual summary and contents that can be retrieved); and


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Conclusion

THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time

policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).

A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE

MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within

TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not

mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the

shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any

extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of

the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later

than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.








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CLAIM DATE Final 1 Original 04/16/2008104/02/20091 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 if 1 if 1 1 1 1 1 1 1




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P2074 5656

EXAMINER

PHAN, TUANKHANH D


2163


11117/2008 PAPER



PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)


11/472,884 GUPTA ET AL.







Status

1)1ZI Responsive to communication(s) filed on 21 June 2006.

2a)0 This action is FINAL. 2b)1ZI This action is non-final.







6)0 Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected.



Application Papers














Attachment(s)

1) IZI Notice of References Cited (PTO-B92)






6) 0 Other: __ .

Office Action Summary Part of Paper No.lMail Date 200B0416

Application/Control Number: 11/472,884 Art Unit: 2163

DETAILED ACTION

Specifications

The specification is objected to as failing to provide proper antecedent basis for

the claimed subject matter. See 37 CFR 1.75(d)(1) and MPEP § 608.01 (0). Correction

of the following is required: the specification does not reasonable provide enablement

for how to summarize a material. In addition, the specification does not reasonable

provide enablement for a machine-readable form - what is a machine-readable form.








comprising: getting material to be summarized (,-r [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material

with for providing text summary), along with source information about the material (,-r










limited.


in that form when acquired (,-r [0030], line 4, a text converter);

a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material (,-r [0030], lines

4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant segments that can be

retrieved); and



(,-r [0030]; an index for indexing can be categorized and detailed - indexed is

equivalent to cross-referenced using the information from the original session).

Conclusion

















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u.s. PATENT DOCUMENTS

* Document Number

Country Code-Number-Kind Code Date

MM-YYYY Name Classification

* A US-5,235,651 A 08-1993 Nafarieh, Asghar 382/290

* B US-5,557,515 A 09-1996 Abbruzzese et al. 705/9

* C US-2002/0147592 A1 10-2002 Wilmot et al. 704/270.1

* D US-2005/0177739 A 1 08-2005 Ferlitsch et al. 713/189

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BIB DATA SHEET

SERIAL NUMBER FILING or 371(c) DATE

11/472,884 06/21/2006

RULE

APPLICANTS Puneet K. Gupta, Newark, CA; Mark A. Boys, Aromas, CA;

** CONTINUING DATA *************************

** FOREIGN APPLICATIONS *************************

CLASS

709

Page 1 of 1



CONFIRMATION NO. 5656

GROUP ART UNIT ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.

2163 P2074

** IF REQUIRED, FOREIGN FILING LICENSE GRANTED ** ** SMALL ENTITY ** 07/20/2006

Foreign Priority claimed DYes ~No STATE OR SHEETS TOTAL INDEPENDENT 35 USC t t9(a-d) conditions met DYes D No D Metafter

Allowance COUNTRY DRAWINGS CLAIMS CLAIMS Verified and ITUAN-KHANH 0 TKP

CA 5 1 1 PHANI Acknowledged Examiner's Signature Initials

ADDRESS


TITLE

Summarization systems and methods

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FILING FEE D 1.17 Fees (Processing Ext. of time)

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1 1 if

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1




Art Unit: 2163

Puneet K. Gupta et al. P2074 111472,884 06/2112006




Dear Sir:

Response A

-2-

In the specification:

Please amend the paragraph beginning on page 2, line 25 to page 3, line 7, as follows:

--In one embodiment an enterprise node 102 in network 100 provides document

summarization services through a Web Server (WS) 110 that is connected to backbone

106. WS 110 is accessible to clients subscribing to or otherwise authorized to access

document summarization services, and executes summarization software (SSW) 111.

SSW 111 in this embodiment is a server-based application suite that automatically

creates document summaries for users who summit submit documents or provide location

information for documents to server 110, enabling server access to such documents.

SSW 111 also performs other tasks, which are related to summary management and

distribution, which may be at user request and direction.--

- 3 -

In the claims:


a function for acquiring material to be summarized, along with source information

about the material;



a computerized summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material,.

reducing the bulk of the material while maintaining meanings and aspects of the original;

and



-4-

REMARKS

The present response is to the Office Action mailed in the above-referenced case

on April 24, 2008. Claim 1 is presented for examination.

Specifications


the claimed subject matter. See 37 CFR 1.7S(d)(I) and MPEP § 608.01(0). Correction of

the following is required: the specification does not reasonable (sic) provide enablement

for how to summarize a material. In addition, the specification does not reasonable (sic)

provide enablement for a machine-readable form -what is a machine-readable form?

Applicant's response

Applicant's claim 1, as amended is reproduced below:


a function for acquiring material to be summarized, along with source information

about the material;




reducing the bulk of the material while maintaining meanings and aspects of the original;

and



Applicant herein amends claim 1 to specifically recite a computerized summarizer

and converting the acquired material to a form readable by the computerized summarizer.

Applicant believes the claim, as amended, is easily supported in the text of the disclosure

- 5 -

of applicant's invention. Applicant urges that the meaning of "machine-readable" is a

notoriously well-know language and meaning in the United States Patent Office, and is

encountered and understood by examiners frequently. It means simply a form like ASCII

text that a computer recognizes. As far as Summarization is concerned, the concept is

described in the specification, and commercially-available summarizers are available.




Examiner's rejection


comprising: getting material to be summarized (~ [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material

with for providing text summary), along with source information about the material

(~[0030], lines 4-8; the text summary);








limited.


in that form when acquired (~ [0030], line 4, a text converter);

a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material (~ [0030], lines

4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant segments that can be retrieved); and



- 6-

(~[0030]; an index for indexing can be categorized and detailed - indexed is equivalent to

cross-referenced using the information from the original session).

Applicant's response

Applicant is confused as to what reference teaches what limitation of applicant's

claim 1. The Examiner states that Wilmot teaches the some portions, introduces

Abbruzzese to teach a scanning function, then continues to recite claim elements and

portions of a reference without identifying which reference is being used. For the sake of

the present invention, applicant assumes the Examiner means to reference Wilmot in the

last several paragraphs of the rejection, which applicant cannot adequately point out

because the Examiner did not number the pages of the Office Action.

Applicant argues that Wilmot fails to teach or suggest; "a function for acquiring

material to be summarized, along with source information about the material; and a

storage function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary created as

separate files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information. Applicant

reproduces paragraph [0030] relied upon by the Examiner to teach said limitation.

[0030} FIG. 6 illustrates a meeting scenario that could be utilized with a system in

accordance with the present invention. In the meeting scenario, audio is input into the

speech to text converter 402" which provides the text. The text index indexes the text as

before described and the text summary and the relevant audio segments can be retrieved

from the text of the storage 408". The meeting scenario provides for (a) listening to the

relevant portions of a recorded meeting or phone conferences by accessing a session

server using a computer; (b) obtaining the words or phrases that are being lookedfor;

(c) observing a textual summary of what was found; and (d) listening to the contents that

a person is interested in. The benefits of the first meeting scenario are that relevant

contents can be selected by seeing a textual summary; contents can be easily

categorized; and it is possible to retrieve important details which were not noticed

during the original session.

- 7 -

Applicant believes Wilmot does not teach text summarization, as claimed in

applicant's invention. In applicant's invention the summary reduces the bulk of the

information summarized without losing the most important meanings and aspects of the

original. Wilmot clearly teaches an indexing function which merely pulls sections out of

the text, intact, and associates the text with a voice portion of the text, as received. In

this manner the document is searchable in sections, but the sections are not summarized,

from a bulk form, nor is the text document of Wilmot. Merely chopping up a document

into searchable portions, wherein when the portions reassembled reproduce the original

document, does not constitute "summarization" as understood in the art, and as taught

and claimed in applicant's invention.

Further, applicant's claim limitation of "storing a copy of the acquired material


source information." has not been shown in the art. The source information referred to in

[0030] of Wilmot means the original voice file, not source information about the material

being acquired and summarized, as claimed. Therefore, the "information from the

original session" as espoused by the Examiner does not equate to the source information

about the material being acquired and summarized, as claimed.

Applicant believes claim 1, as amended, is easily patentable over the art by the

Examiner.

- 8 -

Summary

It is therefore respectfully requested that this application be reconsidered, the claims

be allowed, and that this case be passed quickly to issue. If there are any time extensions

needed beyond any extension specifically requested with this amendment, such extension of

time is hereby requested. If there are any fees due beyond any fees paid with this

amendment, authorization is given to deduct such fees from deposit account 50-0534.



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Name Country COde·Number·Kind Code MM·YYYY Classification

* A US-5,235,651 A 08-1993 Nafarieh, Asghar 382/290

* 8 US-5,557,515 A 09-1996 Abbruzzese et al. 705/9

* C US-2002/0147592 A1 10-2002 Wilmot et al. 704/270.1

* D US-2005/0177739 A 1 08-2005 Ferlitsch et al. 713/189

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11/472,884 06/21/2006

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UNITEO STATES OEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS

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P2074 5656

EXAMINER

PHAN. TUANKHANH D


2163


04/24/2008 PAPER



PTOL·90A (Rev. 04/07)


11/472,884 GUPTA ET AL.



.- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address •• Period for Reply

A SHORTENED STATUTORY PERIOD FOR REPLY IS SET TO EXPIRE J. MONTH(S) OR THIRTY (30) DAYS, WHICHEVER IS LONGER, FROM THE MAILING DATE OF THIS COMMUNICATION.

Extensions of time may be available under the provisions of 37 CFR 1.136(a). In no event. however. maya reply be timely filed after SIX (6) MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication. If NO period for reply is specified above. the maximum statutory period will apply and will expire SIX (6) MONTHS from the mailing date of this communication. Failure to reply within the set or extended period for reply will. by statute. cause the application to become ABANDONED (35 U.S.C. § 133). Any reply received by the Office later than three months after the mailing date of this communication. even if timely filed. may reduce any earned patent term adjustment. See 37 CFR 1.704(b).

Status

1)[8] Responsive to communication(s) filed on 21 June 2006.

2a)0 This action is FINAL. 2b)[8] This action is non-final.


closed in accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quay/e, 1935 C.D. 11,453 O.G. 213.


4)[8] Claim(s) 1 is/are pending in the application.



6)0 Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected.



Application Papers


10)0 The drawing(s) filed on __ is/ are: a)O accepted or b)O objected to by the Examiner.



11)0 The oath or declaration is objected to by the Examiner. Note the attached Office Action or form PTO-152 ..


12)0 Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (t).





application from the International Bureau (PCT Rule 17.2(a)) .

.. See the attached detailed Office action for a list of the certified copies not received.

Attachment(s)

1) [8] Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)

2) 0 Notice of Draftsperson's Patent Drawing Review (PTO-948)

3) 0 Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08) Paper No(s)/Mail Date __ .

4) 0 Interview Summary (PT0-413) Paper No(s)/Mail Date. .

5) 0 Notice of Informal Patent Application 6) 0 Other: __ .

u.S. Patent and Trademark OffICe PTOL-326 (Rev. 08-06) Office Action Summary Part of Paper No.lMail Date 20080416


DETAILED ACTION

Specifications


the claimed subject matter. See 37 CFR 1.75(d)(1) and MPEP § 608.01 (0). Correction

of the following is required: the specification does not reasonable provide enablement

for how to summarize a material. In addition, the specification does not reasonable

provide enablement for a machine-readable form - what is a machine-readable form.

Claim Rejections· 35 USC § 103

The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103(a) which forms the basis for all






comprising: getting material to be summarized (11 [0030], lines 3-7; inputting material

with for providing text summary), along with source information about the material (11










limited.


in that form when acquired (11 [0030], line 4, a text converter);

a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material (1l [0030], lines

4-9; a summary for text summary and the relevant segments that can be

retrieved); and



(1l [0030]; an index for indexing can be categorized and detailed - indexed is

equivalent to cross-referenced using the information from the original session).

Conclusion



(571)270-3047. The examiner can normally be reached on 4/5/9.










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BIB DATA SHEET

SERIAL NUMBER FILING or 371 (c) DATE

11/472,884 06/21/2006

RULE

APPLICANTS Puneet K. Gupta, Newark, CA; Mark A. Boys, Aromas, CA;

** CONTINUING DATA *************************

** FOREIGN APPLICATIONS *************************

CLASS

709


P.O. 80. 1450 Alexandria. Virginia 22313-1450 www.usptO.gov


GROUP ART UNIT ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.

2163 P2074

** IF REQUIRED, FOREIGN FILING LICENSE GRANTED ** ** SMALL ENTITY ** 07/20/2006

Foreign Priority claimed OVes ~NO STATE OR SHEETS . TOTAL INDEPENDENT 35 USC 119(a-d) conditions met 0 Ves 0 No o Metafter

Allowance COUNTRY DRAWINGS CLAIMS CLAIMS Verified and fTUAN-KHANH 0 TKP

CA 5 1 1 PHANI Acknowledged Examiners S'gna!ure liil'!iaTS .

ADDRESS


TITLE

Summarization systems and methods

10 All Fees

FEES: Authority has been given in Paper 10 1.16 Fees (Filing)

FILING FEE 10 1.17 Fees (Processing Ext. of time) RECEIVED No. to charge/credit DEPOSIT ACCOUNT

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SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention is in the area of computerized and network-enabled

systems, and pertains more particularly to systems for receiving and processing

10 information, and returning summaries of various sorts for various purposes.

2. Discussion of the State of the Art.

Computerized summarization systems of various sorts are well-known in the art,

and typically consist of a means of entering information, and treating the entered

15 information in machine-readable format to reduce the bulk of the information without

losing the most important meanings and aspects of the original.

20

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In an embodiment of the present invention a server-side summarization system is

provided, comprising a function for acquiring material to be summarized, along with

source information about the material, a converter for converting the acquired material to

25 machine-readable form, if not in that form when acquired, a summarizer for creating a

summary from the acquired material, and a storage function for storing a copy of the

acquired material and the summary created as separate files, associated and cross

referenced using the source information.

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

Fig. 1 is an architectural overview of a network environment practicing document

summarization according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an exemplary screen shot of a browser window illustrating a

summarization user interface according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a process flow chart illustrating acts for summarizing a document

according to embodiments of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is an exemplary screen shot of the user interface of Fig. 2 illustrating a

10 voice to text summarization feature according to an embodiment of the present invention.

15

Fig. 5 is a process flow chart illustrating acts for summarizing voice to text in

near real time according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

Fig. 1 is an architectural overview of a network 100 wherein document

summarization may be practiced according to embodiments of the present invention.

Network 100 is represented by a cloud and further defined by a network backbone 106,

20 and in a preferred embodiment is the well-known Internet network. Backbone 106

within network 100 represents all of the lines, equipment and access points making up

the network as a whole. It will be appreciated by the skilled artisan that network 100

may include connected sub networks which may include local area networks (LANs),

wide area networks (WANs) and private or public Intranets.

25 In one embodiment an enterprise node 102 in network 100 provides document

summarization services through a Web Server (WS) 110 that is connected to backbone

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106. WS 110 is accessible to clients subscribing to or otherwise authorized to access

document summarization services, and executes summarization software (SSW) 111.

SSW 111 in this embodiment is a server-based application suite that automatically

creates document summaries for users who summit documents or provide location

5 information for documents to server 110, enabling server access to such documents.

SSW 111 also performs other tasks, which are related to summary management and

distribution, which may be at user request and direction.

A client 10 1 has connection to backbone 106 by one of several possible network

access methods. In this example client 101 has a desktop computer 107a connected by a

10 broad-band Internet link to backbone 106. The connection may be digital services line

(DSL), integrated services digital network (ISDN), cable, satellite, or some other network

connection apparatus and method. Computer 107a may be a laptop computer or any

other network-capable appliance with a display and a browser application that may

access server 110. Computer 107a executes browser application 112a which provides

15 general network access and navigation. A broadband connection is preferred, but a

dialup Internet access connection may be used without departing from the spirit and

scope of the present invention wherein network 100 is the Internet. The connecting

network may be any telephony carrier network including the public switched telephone

network (PSTN) or a wireless carrier network.

20 Computer 107a in this example has an optical character recognition (OCR)

scanner 109a connected as a peripheral device. Scanner 109a may be used in one

embodiment to scan documents onto computer 107a for upload to server 110 for

summarizing. Also in one embodiment documents available to computer 107a may be

summarized by server 110 without requiring upload to the server. Client 101 also

25 maintains a network-connected server 108a that is accessible to other users over the

network. Client 101 may therefore be an enterprise providing services and/or products to

customers. A client 103 and a client 105 are illustrated and also have network connection

to backbone 106 as described above. Client 103 is similar to station 101 in that a

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computer 1 07b running a browser instance 112b is provided as well as an OCR scanner

109b. Client 103 may be an enterprise as was described above with respect to client 101.

Furthermore, client 105 is similarly adapted as described above with respect to client 101

including a computer 107d, a scanner 109d, a BR instance 112d running on computer

5 107d and an enterprise server 108c.

Clients, 103, and 105 may subscribe to the services provided by enterprise 102

and may access those services by accessing server 110 with browser interfaces 112a,

112b, and 112d. A browser plug-in such as an active x control, a java-based plug-in, a

direct x plug-in, asynchronous JavaScript and XML, (AJAX), or some other plug-in

10 component may be temporarily or permanently downloaded to each of computers 107a,

107b, and 107d when server 110 is accessed and the user is authenticated for first time

use of the service. In the case of clients, 103, and 105, document summarization as

provided by SSW III may be performed on any electronic documents that may be

uploaded to the server from a network-capable appliance such as from computers 107a,

15 107b, and 107d. Document summarization may also be performed on documents that are

resident on a connecting appliance like computer 107a without requiring the documents

to be uploaded. In this case, the documents for summarizing may be dragged and

dropped into a shared folder that server 110 is authorized to access over network 100.

As described further above each station 101, 103, and 105 have enterprise servers

20 108a, 108b, and 108c adapted to hold and serve enterprise documents internally and to

serve electronic information pages using hypertext markup language (HTML) or an

extension such as SHTML, XML, or the like. Internal documents may include HTML

based information pages addressed in the server, and other document types that may be

stored at the servers. These may include extensions such as .doc, .pdf, or any known

25 extension for any known word processing application used to create those documents. In

this example, clients 101, 103, and 105 may authorize server 110 aided by software III

to search and summarize any documents or electronic information pages maintained in

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those enterprise servers 1 08a-l 08c. Server 110 accesses those servers over network 100

based on a request from the appropriate client 101, 103, or 105.

Document summaries created from resident documents accessed remotely by

server 110 may be stored on the same system that holds the documents that were

5 summarized. Server 110 may associate those summaries to the full-text versions of those

documents and may provide notification of the existence of a summary version of a full

text document to anyone operating on the network that has requested access to a

document that has a summary version associated with it.

In one embodiment, server 110 may keep stored document summaries on its own

10 data storage system and may provide network links to those summaries. The links may

be associated with the full text versions of the summaries at any accessible location of

those documents. It is emphasized that documents and their summaries need not be

stored on a same computing system, server, or hard drive. It is also emphasized that links

to the stored summaries may be placed in a Web page, in a full text document that has

15 been summarized, or simply in an accessible file folder represented as a shortcut icon that

is executable as long as the searched system has connection to the network.

A client 104 includes a computing system 107c and a connected OCR scanner

109c. Computing system 107c has a browser application 112c adapted for browsing the

network. Client 104 may be a private consumer rather than an enterprise maintaining a

20 document and/or Web server. Client 104 may subscribe to services offered through

server 110 and may have documents summarized in the same manners described with

respect to the other enterprise clients. For example client 104 may scan documents into

computing system 107c and have them summarized on the computing system if the

system is online and connected to server 110.

25 In one embodiment, the scanned documents may be uploaded to server 110 for

summarizing. Word documents such as those with the extensions .doc, .pdf, or other

known extensions may be uploaded to server 110 from computer 107c for summarizing.

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Those same documents may be summarized on computing system I07c by dragging them

from their original folder and dropping them into a shared folder made accessible to

server 110 or a special window that may be part of a browser plug-in adapted to enable

server 110 to gain limited control over the computer for the purpose of summarizing

5 those documents.

A user operating computer l07c and in session with server 110 using browser

II2c may request a summary of a document available through an electronic information

page hosted on a network-connected server such as one illustrated in this example as

Web server (WS) 109. In this case, the user submits a universal resource locator (URL)

10 including universal resource indicator (URI) to the electronic document and the server

downloads the document in order to summarize the document. The server may then send

the summary document to the user or make it available to the user at the server depending

on enterprise rules and whether the requested document has been made freely available

for download. The server might also summarize an electronic information page that is

15 accessible by URL.

In one embodiment, server 110 with the aid of SSW 111 may access documents

available through the network and summarize those documents storing the summaries in

a searchable data storage facility. Links may be made available to those documents

through a search engine as a result of a keyword or phrase entry and submission through

20 the search interface. For example, a third party search service may provide search result

pages containing links to electronic information pages containing documents that have

been summarized in the past. Clickable links to those document summaries may be

provided along with the links to the full text documents on the search result page.

As more documents are summarized the search results served will provide more

25 summary links to those full text documents. There may be some rules in place to

determine which documents available through the network should be summarized, such

as for example, popularity (frequently accessed), class (education, technical paper, etc.),

and so on. Research papers and other technology white papers may be good candidates

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for document summaries. User guides, product manuals, tutorials, public information

works, and other frequently accessed materials may be good candidates for summarizing.

Each document summary accessed from a search results page may also contain a

hyperlink to the full text version of the document summary. Summary formats may vary

5 according to the nature of a document. Summary outlines, searchable indexes, graphics

slide shows, and other tools may be provided to help a user determine whether to access a

full document or not.

Fig. 2 is an illustration of an interactive summarization user interface 200

according to an embodiment ofthe present invention. Interface 200 is provided in this

10 example in the form of a browser window. In one embodiment, a browser plug-in may

be provided to enable some or all of the capabilities of the service of the present

invention, such as folder sharing. The server may perform local document summarizing

on the user appliance if the user authorizes the process. In one embodiment, executable

controls may also be temporarily downloaded to interface 200 if required, to perform

15 certain server-side functions on the user device. Those controls may be discarded after /

the user logs off from the server.

In this example interface 200 is currently online and logged into an enterprise

server providing the service of the present invention, such as s~rver 110 of Fig. 1.

Interface 200 has a toolbar 204 similar to any browser interface and may contain user-

20 actionable icons and drop-down menus typical of a browser interface including text entry

fields for entering URLs for navigation and for entering keywords or phrases for

initiating data searches. A search window is illustrated in this example just below toolbar

204. A configuration icon 205 is provided to enable a first time user to configure the

service of the invention for use. Configuration options may vary according to service

25 plan.

Interface 200 has a file browse window 203 for finding documents for

summarizing that are stored locally on the computing appliance or on a connected storage

medium. Window 203 may also be used to find previously created document summaries.

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A data entry field 209 is provided on interface 200 and adapted for enabling a user to

enter a URL and/or document path to a full text document that the user wants a summary

of. A user may populate the entry field manually or a shortcut may be copied and pasted

into the field. An icon labeled summarize 206 is provided adjacent to field 209. When

5 the field is populated the user clicks on summarize to submit the network path to the

service. In addition, user can select the level of summarization he wishes to extract from

the source document. The level is selected via the use of a percentage slider bar to

indicate a percentage level of desired summarization. The server aided by software

navigates to the document and downloads the full text version and summarizes the

10 document according to configured user preferences if any. If the user has not indicated

exact preferences then a default summarization template may be used instead .. In one

embodiment, a percentage-based summarization scale 215 is provided within interface

200. Summarization scale 215 enables a user to pre-select a percentage of summarization

for a document. Scale 215 may be graduated from 0% to 100 % and a slider button on

15 the scale may be manipulated to set a specific percentage.

Once the document has been acquired and summarized, then the summary version

of the document may be sent to the user and may be displayed in a window 201 adapted

for the purpose. In this example, page 1 of a .pdf file 207 is displayed. The user may

scroll normally ifthere is more of the summary document than can be displayed on the

20 screen. If the service already has a summarized version of a document that the user has

provided the network path to, then the service may notify the user that a summary of the

document is currently available for display. Once a summary is displayed, the user may

save the summary locally and perform other common editing and file tasks that may be

available with normal word processing software. Options 208 are provided in this

25 example and may include drop-down menus file, edit, document, tools, view, forward,

send, and collaborate. The option 208 labeled tools may include file converters or plug

in viewers for certain document types. The option 208 labeled view may offer different

types of views of the summary based on any considerations. For example, a user may

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whish to view only a broad outline of the subject matter contained in the full text version

of a document.

The user may activate, forward or deliver the document to a third party through

email, file share program, or through some other resident application used to send

5 messages and attachments. The user may select, collaborate and set up a session with

one or more other connected appliances for the purpose of sharing the user screen and

document display with other users. Icons 214 are provided conveniently within window

201 and are adapted to provide further options. One of icons 214 labeled index may

allow the user to view an index of summarized documents currently available for view.

10 One of icons 214 labeled full text enables the user to immediately retrieve a full text

version of the summary from the server if desired. An icon 214 labeled view last enables

the user to view the last summary acquired.

Interface 200 has a second scrollable sidebar area 202 adapted to contain more

options. A window 210 is provided within area 202 and adapted to show a user the

15 aggregate of document" summaries previously created for the user. The window labeled

mydocuments contains summary documents 211 that are available for viewing.

Summary documents 211 may include links to the full text versions of those documents.

The folder may be maintained at the server and made accessible to the user in

personalized fashion such that only the user has authorization to access the folder.

20 Sidebar 202 also supports a scanner interface for acquiring documents by OCR

scanner for summarizing. In this example, a page 213 of a document scanning into the

computing appliance is illustrated. Jfthe user is connected to the server while scanning is

taking place the service may begin summarizing finished scans as soon as they are

completely scanned onto the appliance. The summarization process is flexible. If

25 subsequent scanned and parsed pages indicate a shift in any completed portion of the

summary that completed portion may be modified. This particular feature of the present

invention provides for extracting an organized summary from an otherwise unorganized

full text document. In other words, the summary software of the invention may be

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enabled to detennine some priority in arrangement of different sections of a document

depending upon what content a user is looking for. Interface 212 may support a single

document scanner or a multiple document scanner without departing from the spirit and

scope of the invention.

Through interface 200, a user may submit documents to the service over the

network for summarizing or the user may allow the server to summarize documents on

the user appliance without requiring any document transfer. After a session is complete,

any downloaded utilities or plug-ins may be disposed of or rendered unusable. In another

embodiment, a persistent browser plug-in may be provided using activeXTM, directX™,

10 Java™ bean, or one of many other known executables. The service of the invention is

intended to support a variety of operating platfonns including Windows™, Apple TM,

Linux™, and any other known operating platfonns.

In an embodiment where the user is an operator of an enterprise station having a

large cache of documents to summarize, the URL to the server or folder containing the

15 documents may be submitted to the service at which time the server may navigate to the

URL and search and summarize all of the documents in the cache. Multiple documents

hosted by a server, contained in a file folder or referenced by a navigable directory may

be summarized in one session. There are many possibilities. Using the invention in this

way enables an enterprise to create and distribute many summary documents. One

20 example may be a contract having many documents sections sent to a prospective buyer

as a series of document summaries. The buyer may access the full-page versions at will

if desired or may simply rely on summary versions for sections of lesser concern.

Fig. 3 is a process flow chart 300 illustrating acts for summarizing a document

according to embodiments of the invention. At act 301 a user operating a network-

25 capable appliance launches the network browser on the appliance. At act 302 the user

connects to the server and logs onto the service by clicking on a plug-in icon

conveniently placed into the browser. In one embodiment, there is no plug-in

downloaded until the user navigates to and logs onto the server. In this case, the

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functionality for having documents summarized locally by the server over the network

may be downloaded as an executable control, that executes and displays a user interface

in the browser like interface 200 described earlier.

At act 303 the user determines if the document for summarizing is online. If at

5 act 303 the target document for summarizing is online, then at act 304, the user provides

the correct network path to the document by manually typing the path or by copying and

pasting a shortcut to the document into a data field provided. At act 305, the user may

click on summarize to have the service navigate to the URL retrieve the document and

summarize it for the user. Step 305 includes making the summary version available to

10 the user by sending it to the user over the network or by placing in a server-side folder

personalized to the user wherein the user may access and download the document.

At act 306, the user has the option of sending the created summary to another user

or users. If the user decides to send the summary to a third party or parties in act 306,

then at act 307 the user clicks on forward or send to launch a preferred email application

15 or some other communications application capable of handling attachments. If at act 306

the user does not want to forward or send the application then at act 311 the process ends.

The user may view, edit and perform other tasks with the summarized document.

If at act 303 the user determines that the document to be summarized is not

online, then the process proceeds to act 309 where the user determines if the document is

20 in local storage. Local storage means that the document is on a storage medium

accessible locally to the station or appliance the user is operating. The storage may be

internal or peripherally accessible to the network-connected appliance. At act 309 if the

document is in local storage, then the process resolves back to act 304 where the user

may submit the document to the server through a file share utility or the user may select

25 the document and drags it into a special share folder accessible to the summarizing

software running server side.

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In one embodiment, the user may copy a shortcut to the document and submit the

shortcut to the server so that the server may navigate to the document. In the latter cases

the appliance hosting the document would have a network address such as a URL or URL

and machine address. In a wireless embodiment, the server may be a corporate server

5 connected to a local WAN and may have access to a local network supporting the hosting

machine. There are many possibilities. At act 305, the document is summarized

according to a default protocol or customized protocol if the user has pre-configured any

preferences.

Still possible is that at act 309, the user determines that the document is not in

10 local storage but may be acquired such as by scanning. In this case, the user acquires in

the document at act 310. In some cases, a peripheral scanning device may be made

accessible to the summarization software through the appliance operated by the user. An

example might be a networked and shared enterprise scanning device capable of

independent storing and, perhaps serving scanned documents. In the latter case, the

15 device may have a network address or URL and the service may be authorized to access

the scanning device over the network. Thus enabled, the server may also summarize the

document at the scanning device. Likewise, the scanning device may be enabled to serve

the full text document directly to the server upon request where it may be summarized at

the server and sent to the authorizing user or otherwise made available to the authorizing

20 user.

At act 306, after the document has been summarized, an option for sending the

summarized version of the document to another party or parties may be presented to the

user that ordered the summary. The summarized version might be sent by proxy from the

server or if the summarized version is available on the users appliance then the user may

25 send the document at the time the document displays on the user appliance. If at act 306

the user decides not to send a copy to another party or parties, then the process may end

at act 311. If at act 306 the user decides to send the summary version to one or more

parties, then at act 307 the user may click to send launching a default application. The

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default application may be an email application.afile sharing application, or some other

messaging application capable of handling attachments. In one embodiment, a user may

authorize the summary document to be distributed by proxy the user providing the

recipient address or list of recipient addresses to the server.

5 At act 308, the summary document is sent to one or more intended recipients over

the network. As described above, the document may be sent directly by the user or by

proxy without the user actually taking possession of the document. After the document is

distributed, the process may end for that document at act 311. A user may, of course,

perform many other document management tasks such as ordering a re-summarization of

10 a document according to an alternate criterion.

It will be apparent to one with skill in the art of network communication between

nodes connected to an Internet or other network that the process of this example may

include more or fewer acts than illustrated herein without departing from the spirit and

scope of the present invention. For example, an optional act for editing a summary

15 version of a full text document may be provided before act 306 if the summarized version

is on the appliance of the user and if the summary version is an editable version. In some

cases the summaries may be read only depending upon enterprise rules taking into

account user preferences.

Act 306 may not be performed at all and other tasks not mentioned here may be

20 contemplated without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. For

example, an act may be provided before act 305 for pre-selecting a specific percentage of

summarization for a document using a summarization scale like scale 215 described

above. In this case, the act of pre-selecting a summary percentage may be inserted after

acts 304 and 310, or after act 302 in this process. Pre-selection of a summary percentage

25 is optional and a default percentage may be observed unless overridden by a user using

the summarization scale. (not to limit the scope by illustrating the act at a certain position

in the figure.).

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Fig. 4 is a representation of a screen shot of the user interface 200 of Fig. 2

illustrating a voice to text summarization feature according to an embodiment of the

invention. In one embodiment of the invention, a voice to text summarization feature is

provided that enables near real-time summarization of documents acquired by voice or

5 audio input and translated to text using voice-to-text software.

Interface 200 contains many of the same elements described with respect to Fig. 2

above. Elements in this example that have already been described and that are not

changed from their description in this example shall not be re-introduced. Screen 201

contains an icon 400 labeled voice input. Icon 400 may be selected to enable audio input

10 into voice-to-text software provided on the user appliance or, in one embodiment, at the

server. The voice-to text software is adapted as is generally known to translate the voice

input to text.

In one embodiment, the user appliance is enabled for voice input to text

translation. In this case, the voice input may be provided to the appliance anytime while

15 online or offline and a text rendition of the voice input may be created for eventual

summarizing by the service of the present invention. In another embodiment, the voice

to-text capability is provided server-side with the summarization software. In this

embodiment, the user may call the server from the user appliance that is supporting

interface 200 or from any a voice-capable appliance associated with and verifiably

20 registered with the service. The user may then provide the voice input to the server.

Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) may be used to carry the voice input to the server

sever. In another variation of this embodiment, the user's voice is recorded and

converted to voice extensible markup language VXML or some other voice markup

language and then recreated at the server as synthesized voice input that is then translated

25 into text at the server.

In one embodiment text summarizing may begin at the server once sufficient

voice input has been translated into text at the server and before all of the voice input has

been received at the server. In an example of this embodiment, a user may speak into the

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connected appliance and at the server summarization begins almost immediately. In this

case, the summarization text rendered is considered temporary and revisable as more

input is received and main themes are added and perhaps reprioritized for summary

rendition. Once a user is finished with voice input, a signal that the input stream has

5 completed enables the summarizing engine to finalize the summary version of the full

text translation. A user option is presented within screen 201 for only rendering

summary text instead of a full text version of the document. In this case, the text

rendered that ultimately will not be a part of the summary version is not discarded until

the final summary version is decided or finalized. At that point the unneeded text may be

10 discarded.

In this example, a voice-to-text (VTT) summary version of a translated document

is displayed in screen 201 once it has been finalized by the system. A window 402 is

provided in the browser sidebar area that is very similar to window 210 of Fig. 2 accept

that it contains voice-to-text rendered summary documents 403 that were acquired

15 through voice input. One with skill in the art of voice communications will appreciate

that voice to text rendering may be performed over a network.

In one embodiment, the VTT software is local to the user appliance and the text

translation is completed locally. In this case, the voice summarization may also begin

before the voice input has finished as long as the user is connected to the server while the

20 process continues. In this case, the text rendered may be submitted to the service over

the network as it is being rendered and the summary may be created at the server. In

another case, the server has access to a shared folder, or a special component of the VTT

software that enables the summarizing engine to cooperate with the local instance of VTT

software over the network. In this case the summary may be created by the server but

25 rendered locally on the user appliance.

In one possible example, a user may attend a lecture equipped with a powerful

handheld voice and network-capable appliance. In this case the user records the lecture

live. The appliance may be connected wirelessly to the server hosting the summarization

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software. As the lecture is recorded the voice is translated into text and then

summarized. when the lecture is complete, the user already has a summary text document

highlighting the important parts of the lecture to use as notes. The lecture may be

recorded off line, translated locally and then summarized when the user next connects to

5 the server-based document summarizing service.

Fig. 5 is a process flow chart 500 illustrating acts for summarizing voice to text in

near real time according to an embodiment of the invention. At act 501, a user selects a

voice to text summarizing option. In one embodiment, act 501 occurs while the user is

connected online to the service of the present invention. At act 502, a voice input

10 mechanism is activated, for example, a microphone and VTT software. At act 503, a

voice-to-text translation engine is activated to begin translating the voice input and the

voice input begins. The VTT software may, in one embodiment, be locally stored and

executable from the user appliance.

At act 504, the VTT software begins rendering text from the voice input. At act

15 505, the service determines whether there is enough rendered text to begin

summarization. If progress is not sufficient to begin summarizing, then the process loops

back until there is sufficient text to begin. At act 505 once there is sufficient text

rendered for summarizing, then at act 506 the document summarization process begins.

It is important to note herein that all of the voice input is translated into text, but only

20 some of the translated text will be included in the summary version. The user may elect

to render both a full and summary version of the voice input session, or just to render a

summary version discarding the text that is not required for the summary.

At act 507 voice input continues while summarization continues. At act 508 a

determination is made whether the content being received and parsed for summary is

25 shifting in theme, perhaps requiring some modification or reorganization in the rendered

summary text. If not in act 508, then the process loops back to act 507 and then back to

act 508 repeatedly until there is some shift in theme or new content that shifts away from

the current summarized content. It is important to note herein that it is certainly possible

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that a summary may be completed without determining a positive at act 508. However, it

is highly likely that a summary begun before all of the text has been acquired will need

some revision before presentation. For example, with voice input is likely that a salient

or important point may be brought up out of order of importance later in the input stream.

5 This feature accounts for that possibility and enables the system to reprioritize the

summary points. At act 508, if there is some shifting of content that might warrant a

revision of the format of a summary and/or the text reserved for that summary then at act

509, the system may perform a revision or an adjustment to what has already been

rendered as text and reserved for summary presentation.

10 At act 510, the system determines if the voice input has completed for a current

session. If not, the process loops back to act 508 to determine if there is any shifting

content that may require an adjustment to form, format or text already reserved for the

summary document. If at act 510 it is determined that voice input is complete for that

session, then at act 511, the summary rendering is finalized and the summary version is

15 created for display, editing and other task considerations. At act 512, the summary

document has been rendered so the process may terminate for that session. It is noted

herein that the system continually revises its summary form, format and text while voice

input continues and different themes, point, and ideas are interpreted until all of the input

has been interpreted, at which time the complete summary is available. If at any time the

20 session is interrupted, the summary version may still be created and presented based on

the data that has been received.

In one embodiment, a user may add to a summary document by calling it up from

storage and initiating a voice session associated with document editing. In this case, the

summarizing engine may pick up where it left off and continue to build and revise the

25 summary document as necessary based on the new content added. This particular feature

of near-real-time summarization of translated voice is not available with current

document summarization applications. By providing prioritization rules that also

recognize key words and phrases that are used to describe importance, the engine can

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create a prioritized and organized summary almost immediately after the voice input

session has completed. For example, the phrase "This is a key component" may be

interpreted as it is used in association with one or more paragraphs just received. "The

most important aspect" might also be recognized as a prioritization key in summarizing

5 so that whatever text is associated with the phrase retains the priority in the summary

document. The phrase, "A more important aspect is" ... or "More importantly" ... can

also be integrated into a prioritization scheme to help create more organized summaries

than would otherwise be rendered. This feature, although applicable to summaries

created only from text documents, is particularly useful for creating summaries from

10 rendered speech as the organization of voice input is typically not as evident as it is in a

prepared text document.

It will be apparent to one with skill in the art that a capability of summarizing

VTT renderings is not required in order to practice the present invention. However, the

feature enables broadening of the types of input that may be summarized not limiting to

15 complete text documents. In an additional embodiment, summarizing may be practiced

according to the present invention in near real time wherein the input is a typing session.

For example, a user may be creating a document while connected to the service in a

session so that whenever the user stops typing input, a latest version of the summary may

be presented following generally the process of Fig. 5 where the input is text input

20 instead of voice input. Furthermore, a summary document may be voice synthesized and

played back to a user or sent to the user as an executable voice file. There are many

possibilities.

In another aspect of the invention enterprise server 110 is coupled to a data

repository 113 (see Fig. 1) of considerable capacity, and all, or selected documents

25 received and summarized are stored in this repository and cross-referenced. In an

embodiment of the invention summaries may be provided free-of-charge to clients who

access the service, but in exchange for information that facilitates the function of cross

referencing documents and associated summaries stored. As an example, students in

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universities may be solicited to use the service for processing documents they may be

assigned as reading/studying material in their courses in University, and the students

receive the summaries free by providing such information as the University, the Professor

or teacher. the course number or numbers, the name of the book or identity of other

5 source of material that they submit for summarization, and so forth; any and all

information about the information to be summarized.

In this example server 110 and/or repository 113 is enabled by software to store

the information documents and the summaries, and to organize the information cross

referenced. After a period of time preparing and storing and providing such summaries

10 back to requesting clients, it may be that a client might request a summary for a

document that has already been summarized, and the document and its summary in

several forms may be in repository 113. The server software may search the repository

as a prelude in any request for summarization, and if the document is already there with

summaries, may simply access the already-available material.

15 At another point in time the cross-referenced information stored in repository 113

may become so comprehensive that clients from universities may be able to access

enterprise 102 and request a catalogue of contents based on a course number at a

university, a professor's name, and the like, and the available information may be readily

provided. Professors and teachers may also access information from such a cross-

20 referenced source as an aid in their teaching work loads.

In addition, user generated feedback (including comments, reviews, and other

addendums or types of feedback) may be stored on the server and linked to the respective

summarized document.

In another aspect, similar to the example above, cross-referenced data may be

25 categorized into a broad variety of subsets by application, by origin, by almost any useful

criteria, and the developed collection then becomes very useful to a wide variety of

companies, government organizations, politicians, religious leaders, and the like.

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The methods and apparatus of the present invention may be practiced using all of

or some of the components described without departing from the spirit and scope of the

present invention. The invention may be practiced over the Internet network and any

connected sub networks including wireless cells having a routed connection to the

5 Internet. The spirit and scope of the present invention shall be limited only by the claims

that follow.

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What is claimed is:

1. A server-side summarization system, comprising:

5 a function for acquiring material to be summarized, along with source information

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about the material;



a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material; and



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converting the acquired material to machine-readable form, if not in that form when

acquired, a summarizer for creating a summary from the acquired material, and a storage

function for storing a copy of the acquired material and the summary created as separate

files, associated and cross-referenced using the source information.

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06/19/2006 05:06 5107917979

DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR PATENT APPLICATION

ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.P2074

PAGE 02

As a below named inventor, I hereby declare that: My residence, post office address and citizenship are as stated below next to my name. I believe 1 am the original, first and sale inventor (if only one name is listed below) or an original, fi.rst 1Ulc;J joint inventor (if plural names arc listed below) of the subject matter which is claimed and for which II. patent is sought on the invention entitled: Summari7.atil)Q Syst.ems $ud Methods .

the specificl¢on of which (check one) ~ is attacbe<.i hereto. o was filed 01'1: __

o Application $e.riaJ No. __ o and was amended on __

(If applicable) I hereby state that I bave reviewed and understand the contents of tile above-identified specification, jncluding the

claims, as amended by any amendment referred. to above:. I acknowledge the duty to disclose infonnarioll which is material to the examination of this applicatiotl in accordan~ with Title 37, Code of Fcdcral Regulations, s 1.56 (a), In the case that the present application is a continuation-in-part application. I further acknowledge the duty to disclose material infonnation as defined in 37 CPR s 1.56(a) which became available between the filing date of the prior appllCalion and the filing date of the present application. J hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United Slates Code s 119 of any foreign applications for patent or inventor's certificate listed below and have also identified below any foreign application for patent or inventor's certificate having a filing date bd'orc that of the application on whjch priority is claimed: . Prior Foreign Application(s)

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(Number) (COUDtry) (DaylMonth/Ycar Filed) I hcreby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Codes, 120 and 119 ofany United States application(s) listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of each of the claims of this application is not disclosed in the prior United Statt:S application in the manner provided by the first paragraph of Title 35, Linited States Code, 5112, I acknowlc:dgo the duty (.() disclose material information as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, sJ 56(a) which occurred between the filing date ofthc priorapplicariOI) and the national or PCT international filing date of this application.

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AITORNEY DOCKET NO. ~

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( hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements made on infomlation and belief arc: believed to be true; and ftmher that these statements were made with the kn.Qwledge that willful false statements and the like so made arc punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code and that such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity ofthc application or any patent issued thereon.

FU", nam' Of~" 0' fl'" lnvento!: l>.J~~'. 1st mventor's sIgnature: ~A' ~ Residence: 36109 Crvs\a] ~I?rihgl\ Drive Ne . k; A 94560 US Citizenship: India Post Office Address: Same::

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