REMARKS
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`By way of the present response claims 1, 11, and 21 have been amended. Support may
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`be found throughout the Specification, such as at [0037]. It is respectfully submitted that the
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`amendment does not add new matter. Applicant respectfully requests reconsideration of the
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`present application and the allowance of all claims now presented.
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`Amendments to the Specification
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`The specification has been amended at [0035], [0037], [0039], [0040], [0041], [0046],
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`and [0047] to correct the typographical errors. No new matter was added.
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`Interview Summary
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`Applicants thank Examiner Halm for courtesies extended during our telephonic
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`interviews on February 1, 2021 and February 8, 2021. During the interviews, the Examiner
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`agreed that the proposed amendments overcame the cited references.
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`Rejections under - 35 U.S.C. § 103
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`Claims 1, 2, 4-8, 11, 12, 14-18, 21, 23-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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`unpatentable over Selberg (U.S. Publication No. 2006/0195439) in view of Gallani er al., (US.
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`Publication No. 2013/0103389). The cited references do not disclose or suggest at least the
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`elements “the source domains hosting pages containing anchor texts linked to pages hosted
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`by the destination domains... collecting anchor texts contained in pages. .
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`. .computing and
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`storing in a repository, for an author-term affinity scoring system, an author-term affinity score
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`between a destination domain and a term in the collected anchor texts, the author-term
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`aff1nity score based on a contribution of the term to an anchor text’s score for all anchor texts in
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`the collected anchor texts in which the term appears, wherein computing the contribution of the
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`term in the anchor text to the anchor text’s score includes the anchor text score for each anchor
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`text in which the term appears and computing how frequently the term occurs in the corpus of
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`pages,” of claim 1, as amended. The cited references fail to disclose or suggest computing an
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`author-term affinity score between a destination domain and a term in the collected anchor texts.
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`Selberg is directed toward document relevance to a category. The cited sections of
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`Selberg are concerned with using category relevance weight assignment (Selberg, [0040],
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`[0051]). Selberg is silent with respect to anchor text. Applicants agree with the Examiner at page
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`7, Selberg does not disclose computing the contribution of the term in the anchor text to the
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`anchor text’s score based on how frequently the term occurs in the corpus of pages. It follows
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`that Selberg does not disclose or suggest an author-term aff1nity score between a destination
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`domain and a term in the collected anchor texts, the author-term aff1nity score based on a
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`contribution of the term to an anchor text’s score for all anchor texts in the collected anchor texts
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`in which the term appears, computing the contribution of the term in the anchor text to the
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`anchor text’s score includes the anchor text score for each anchor text in which the term appears
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`and computing how frequently the term occurs in the corpus of pages.
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`Gallant does not remedy the deficiencies present in Selberg. Instead, Gallant discloses
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`creating concept feature vectors for concepts in a document using various signals. Gallant is
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`directed to mapping a textual representation in a document to a category (Gallant, Abstract).
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`The cited sections of Gallant disclose computing signals for concept feature vectors of a
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`document in order to add hyperlinks to the document and/or categorize the document as
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`pertaining to particular concepts (Gallant, [0117], [0110], and FIG. 12). There is no
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`computation of an author-term aff1nity score between a destination domain and a term in the
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`collected anchor texts linked to pages hosted by the destination domains in Gallant. Further,
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`there is no suggestion for computation of the author-term aff1nity score between a destination
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`domain and a term because the intent is to identify concepts to include hyperlinks in documents.
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`(Gallant, [0053] and FIG. 12).
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`Independent claims 11 and 21 recite similar limitations to claim 1, and are patentable
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`over the cited references for at least the same reasons at claim 1. Applicant thus respectfully
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`submits that the independent claims and dependent claims which depend on the independent
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`claims, are patentable over Selberg in view of Gallant, and request that the rejection under 35
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`U.S.C. §103 be withdrawn.
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`Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Selberg in
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`view of Gallant and further in view oth (US. Patent No. 5920859). Claims 9, 10, 19 and 20
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`stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Selberg in view of Gallant and
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`further in view of Zunger el al., (US. Publication No. 2016/0142358). Lt and Zunger do not
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`remedy the deficiencies in Selberg and Gallant. Instead, the cited sections of Lt disclose
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`counting the number of documents with a term in the anchor text (Lt, Col, 7, 11. 28-3 8). Zunger
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`is directed to location aware notifications.
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`Applicant thus respectfully submits that the independent claims, and dependent claims
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`which depend on it, are patentable over the cited references, and request that the rejection under
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`35 U.S.C. §103 be withdrawn.
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`In conclusion, Applicant respectfully submits that in View of the above remarks, the
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`application is in condition for allowance. If the Examiner determines the prompt allowance of
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`these claims could be facilitated by a telephone conference, the Examiner is inVited to contact the
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`undersigned at 415-505-2671.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`JAFFERY WATSON MENDONSA & HAMILTON LLP
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`Dated:
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`2/18/21
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`/Megan Gallant/
`Megan Gallant
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`Reg. No. 65,960
`Tel. :(415) 505-2671
`Customer No. 147271
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