Appeal No. 2001-0024
Application No. 08/827,285 Page 9
specifies an analysis group, and does not recite performing an
analysis. The examiner asserts (id.) that in Marks, the symbolic
control records are grouped together under specific ledger files
that can be used for comparing data entered by a user to data
stored in the ledger files. The examiner interprets comparing
the data stored in the ledger file as being synonymous to
analyzing data in a ledger file, and adds that "[b]ecause the
records are grouped under one file heading, it is obvious that
when a person is analyzing information in the specific file that
the file heading becomes the Analysis group." The examiner
responds, (answer, page 5), with respect to (d), by noting that
“[a]ttributes are defined as the name or structure of a field in
a database record,” and asserting essentially that because the
fields associated with the records provide a name or structure
for the record and describe the contents of the fields, that the
fields are attributes.
Appellants respond (reply brief, page 5) with respect to (a)
that “[e]ven if Marks and Bigus are properly combined to produce
an object oriented framework that performs accounting functions,
this combination does not teach a framework that has a single
object class that ‘specifies an analysis group, account types,
and account attributes of the business financial data’ as recited
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