Appeal No. 1999-1557
Application 08/650,397
database management system (DBMS or dbms) A
software system that provides comprehensive
facilities for the organization and manage-
ment of a body of information required for
some particular application or group of
related applications. . . . The system
will provide a database language in which
schemas and subschemas (user views) can be
specified and retrieval and update programs
written. There will be facilities to
specify and modify the storage schema, for
logging, rollback, and recovery.
Dictionary of Computing 120 (4th ed. 1996).
Relying strictly on Appellant’s definition of “database” which
includes a “database management system,” we do not find any
clear evidence that Naito teaches Appellant’s required claim
limitation of a “database system.”
Claim 6 further requires an “input means for accepting
queries.” We extract the definition of “query” from The
Microsoft Computer Dictionary. It reads:
query: The process of extracting data from
a database and presenting it for use.
Also, a specific set of instructions for
extracting particular data repetitively.
In this latter
context, for example, a query might be
created to present sales figures for a
particular region of the country. This
query
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