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EP1124189 - DOCUMENT SORTING METHOD, DOCUMENT SORTER, AND RECORDED MEDIUM ON WHICH DOCUMENT SORTING PROGRAM IS RECORDED [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 04.05.2007 Database last updated on 05.10.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	04.05.2007	Refusal of application	published on 06.06.2007 [2007/23]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Seiko Epson Corporation 4-1, Nishi-Shinjuku 2-chome Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 163-0811 / JP
	[N/P]
Former [2001/33]	For all designated states SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 4-1, Nishishinjuku 2-chome Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0811 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / NAGAISHI, Michihiro Seiko Epson Corporation, 3-5, Owa 3-chome Suwa-shi, Nagano 392-8502 / JP
	02 / MIWA, Shinji Seiko Epson Corporation, 3-5, Owa 3-ccome Suwa-shi, Nagano 392-8502 / JP
	[2001/33]
Representative(s)	Sturt, Clifford Mark, et al Miller Sturt Kenyon 9 John Street London WC1N 2ES / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2001/33]	Sturt, Clifford Mark, et al Miller Sturt Kenyon 9 John Street London WC1N 2ES / GB
Application number, filing date	00931690.2	02.06.2000
	[2001/33]
	WO2000JP03625
Priority number, date	JP19990158498	04.06.1999 Original published format: JP 15849899
	JP19990212501	27.07.1999 Original published format: JP 21250199
	[2001/33]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO0075810
	Date:	14.12.2000
	Language:	EN
	[2000/50]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP1124189
	Date:	16.08.2001
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 14.12.2000 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2001/33]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	14.12.2000
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	09.06.2004
Classification	IPC:	G06F17/30	[2001/33]
	CPC:	G06F16/93 (EP,US); Y10S707/99933 (US); Y10S707/99935 (US)
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB [2004/22]
Former [2001/33]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE
Extension states	AL	Not yet paid
	LT	Not yet paid
	LV	Not yet paid
	MK	Not yet paid
	RO	Not yet paid
	SI	Not yet paid
Title	German:	DOKUMENTENSORTIERVERFAHREN, DOKUMENTENSORTIERER UND AUFZEICHNUNGSMEDIUM AUF DEM DAS DOKUMENTENSORTIERPROGRAMM AUFGENOMMEN IST	[2001/33]
	English:	DOCUMENT SORTING METHOD, DOCUMENT SORTER, AND RECORDED MEDIUM ON WHICH DOCUMENT SORTING PROGRAM IS RECORDED	[2001/33]
	French:	PROCEDE DE TRI DE DOCUMENTS, APPAREIL DE TRI DE DOCUMENTS ET SUPPORT ENREGISTRE SUR LEQUEL UN PROGRAMME DE TRI DE DOCUMENTS EST MEMORISE	[2001/33]
Entry into regional phase	01.03.2001	Translation filed
	28.02.2001	National basic fee paid
	28.02.2001	Search fee paid
	28.02.2001	Designation fee(s) paid
	14.05.2001	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	14.05.2001	Examination requested [2001/33]
	16.09.2004	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	26.01.2005	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	03.05.2005	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	06.09.2005	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	16.01.2007	Cancellation of oral proceeding that was planned for 16.01.2007
	16.01.2007	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	16.01.2007	Date of oral proceedings (cancelled)
	24.01.2007	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2007/23]
	03.02.2007	Application refused, date of legal effect [2007/23]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	05.06.2002	Renewal fee patent year 03
	06.06.2003	Renewal fee patent year 04
	14.06.2004	Renewal fee patent year 05
	20.06.2005	Renewal fee patent year 06
	15.06.2006	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:	Search	[XY] - ZAMIR O ET AL, "WEB DOCUMENT CLUSTERING: A FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION", SIGIR '98. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM-SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. MELBOURNE, AUG. 24 - 28, 1998, ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM-SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RET, (1998), ISBN 1-58113-015-5, pages 46 - 54, XP002949043 [X] 1-5,10-13 * figure 1 * * page 48, column L - page 49, column R * [Y] 6-9
		[Y] - ZAMIR O ET AL, "GROUPER: A DYNAMIC CLUSTERING INTERFACE TO WEB SEARCH RESULTS", COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS, NORTH HOLLAND PUBLISHING. AMSTERDAM, NL, (19990517), vol. 31, ISSN 0169-7552, pages 1361 - 1374, XP002930746 [Y] 6-9 * figure 2 * * page 1366, column L * * page 1367, column L - page 1368, column L *
		[A] - WILLETT P, "RECENT TRENDS IN HIERARCHIC DOCUMENT CLUSTERING: A CRITICAL REVIEW", INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, ELSEVIER, BARKING, GB, (1988), vol. 24, no. 5, ISSN 0306-4573, pages 577 - 597, XP000573921 [A] 1-13 * page 579 * * page 580 - page 582 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(88)90027-1
		[A] - CHANG C-H ET AL, "Customizable multi-engine search tool with clustering", COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS, NORTH HOLLAND PUBLISHING. AMSTERDAM, NL, (19970901), vol. 29, no. 8-13, ISSN 0169-7552, pages 1217 - 1224, XP004095318 [A] 1-13 * page 1220 - page 1221 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7552(97)00053-6
		[A] - ZAMIR O ; ETZIONI O ; MADANI O ; KARP R M, "Fast and intuitive clustering of Web documents", PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING, NEWPORT BEACH, CA, USA, (19970817), pages 287 - 290, XP002280255 [A] 1,3,10,12 * page 289, column L *
		[A] - CROUCH C J ED - CHIARAMELLA Y ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY, "A CLUSTER-BASED APPROACH TO THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. (SIGIR). GRENOBLE, JUNE 13 - 15, 1988, NEW YORK, ACM, US, (19880613), vol. CONF. 11, pages 309 - 320, XP000295046 [A] 1,3,10,12 * page 316 - page 317 *
		[A] - SALTON G ET AL, "TERM-WEIGHTING APPROACHES IN AUTOMATIC TEXT RETRIEVAL", INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, ELSEVIER, BARKING, GB, (1988), vol. 24, no. 5, ISSN 0306-4573, pages 513 - 523, XP002035959 [A] 1,3,10,12 * page 516 - page 517 * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0306-4573(88)90021-0
	International search	[X]JPH10162012 (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD);
		[Y] - SHIOMI ET AL., "Thesaurus wo mochiita bunsho data no jidou bunrui hou", RESEARCH REPORT OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY OF JAPAN (IPSJ), (JAPAN), (19970120), vol. 97, no. 4 (97-NL-117), pages 99 - 104, XP002945886
		[A] - OREN ZAMIR, OREN ETZIONI, "Grouper: A dynamic clustering interface to web search results", COMPUTER NETWORKS, (19990517), vol. 31, no. 11-16, pages 1361 - 1374, XP002930746

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