Appeal No. 2002-0561
Application No. 09/410,531
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads
as follows:
1. A system for performing data mining applications,
comprising:
(a) a computer having one or more data storage devices
connected thereto;
(b) a relational database management system, executed by the
computer, for managing a relational database stored on the data
storage devices; and
(c) an analytic algorithm for clustering performed by the
computer, wherein the analytic algorithm for clustering includes
SQL statements performed by the relational database management
system for reducing data retrieved from the relational database in
bulk by reducing the number of columns or rows in the data, the
analytic algorithm for clustering includes programmatic iteration
for operating on the reduced data to find clusters therein, and the
analytic algorithm for clustering creates at least one analytic
model within an analytic logical data model from the reduced data.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
McElhiney 5,710,915 Jan. 20, 1998
Claims 1 through 36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over McElhiney.
Reference is made to the final rejection (paper number 8), the
briefs (paper numbers 11 and 14) and the answer (paper number 13)
for the respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
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