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EP1586058 - SEARCHING APPARATUS AND METHODS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  24.04.2009
Database last updated on 16.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip24.04.2009Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 27.05.2009  [2009/22]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
81 Newgate Street London
EC1A 7AJ / GB
[N/P]
Former [2005/42]For all designated states
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
81 Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ / GB
Inventor(s)01 / DUCATEL, Gery, Michel
40 Cecil Road Ipswich
Suffolk IP1 3NW / GB
02 / AZVINE, Behnam
6 Dodson Vale
Ipswich Suffolk IP5 2GT / GB
 [2005/42]
Representative(s)Geffen, Nigel Paul
BT Intellectual Property Department
Ground Floor
BT Faraday Building
1 Knightrider Street
London EC4V 5BT / GB
[N/P]
Former [2005/42]Geffen, Nigel Paul
BT Group Legal Intellectual Property Department, PP C5A BT Centre 81 Newgate Street
London EC1A 7AJ / GB
Application number, filing date04704667.723.01.2004
[2005/42]
WO2004GB00310
Priority number, dateGB2003000172124.01.2003         Original published format: GB 0301721
GB2003000946025.04.2003         Original published format: GB 0309460
[2005/42]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2004066163
Date:05.08.2004
Language:EN
[2004/32]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP1586058
Date:19.10.2005
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 05.08.2004 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2005/42]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP05.08.2004
ClassificationIPC:G06F17/30
[2005/42]
CPC:
G06F16/9535 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2006/20]
Former [2005/42]AT,  BE,  BG,  CH,  CY,  CZ,  DE,  DK,  EE,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  HU,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  RO,  SE,  SI,  SK,  TR 
Extension statesALNot yet paid
LTNot yet paid
LVNot yet paid
MKNot yet paid
TitleGerman:SUCHAPPARATEN UND METHODEN[2005/42]
English:SEARCHING APPARATUS AND METHODS[2005/42]
French:DISPOSITIFS ET PROCEDES DE RECHERCHE[2005/42]
Entry into regional phase18.07.2005National basic fee paid 
18.07.2005Designation fee(s) paid 
18.07.2005Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure18.07.2005Examination requested  [2005/42]
06.04.2006Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
12.10.2006Reply to a communication from the examining division
23.07.2008Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.12.2008Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [2009/22]
13.01.2009Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time  [2009/22]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.12.2005Renewal fee patent year 03
18.12.2006Renewal fee patent year 04
17.12.2007Renewal fee patent year 05
Penalty fee
Additional fee for renewal fee
31.01.200906   M06   Not yet paid
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Cited inInternational search[XY]WO0077689  (TRIOGO INC [US]) [X] 1-4,8-13,18-20,22-24,29-31,36,37 * page 6, line 1 - page 7, line 11 * * page 10, line 10 - page 14, line 8 * * page 14, line 9 - page 17, line 25 * * page 18, line 1 - page 21, line 11 * * page 21, line 13 - page 26, line 10 * * Profile management and adding of resource relevance to profiles.;; figures 1,2 * [Y] 5-7,14-17,21,25-28,32-35;
 [A]US6256633  (DHARAP CHANDA [US]) [A] 1-37* the whole document *;
 [AY]US2002042793  (CHOI JUN-HYEOG [KR]) [A] 1-4,8-13,18-20,22-24,29-31,36,37 * page 2, paragraph 23 - paragraph 30 * * page 3, paragraph 50 - page 4, paragraph 69 * * page 5, paragraph 79 - page 6, paragraph 93 * * page 6 * * page 6, paragraph 99 - page 8, paragraph 125 * * page 9, paragraph 151 - page 12, paragraph 198 * * Clustering methods with fuzzy sets, SOM (Self Organising Maps) and Kohonen method for order ranking.;; figures 1-4,8 * [Y] 5-7,14-17,21,25-28,32-35;
 [A]  - LAGUS K, "Text retrieval using self-organized document maps", NEURAL PROCESS. LETT. (NETHERLANDS), NEURAL PROCESSING LETTERS, FEB. 2002, KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, NETHERLANDS, (200202), vol. 15, no. 1, ISSN 1370-4621, pages 21 - 29, XP002286398 [A] 1-37 * the whole document *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1013853012954
 [A]  - RONG JIN ET AL, "Meta-scoring: automatically evaluating term weighting schemes in IR without precision-recall", SIGIR FORUM (USA), SIGIR FORUM, 2001, ACM, USA, (2001), vol. spec. issue., ISSN 0163-5840, pages 83 - 89, XP002286399 [A] 1-37 * the whole document *
Examination   - UNDERWOOD G M; MAGLIO P P; BARRETT R, "User-centered push for timely information delivery", COMPUTER NETOWRKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS, SAN JOSE, CA, USA, (19980401), XP004121442

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00083-X
    - CHEN H; LYNCH K J, "Automatic construction of networks of concepts characterizing document databases", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN AND CYBERNETICS, NEW YORK, US, (19920201), pages 885 - 902, XP002346200

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/21.179830
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