Appeal No. 2004-1128
Application No. 10/099,121
time-stamp. Appellant adds (Reply Brief, page 3) that the
relative time-stamps in Fehskens of "at or before," "at,"
"every," and "yesterday" return all information with a time-stamp
satisfying the constraint, not one version with a time-stamp that
represents a time offset from a predefined time, as required by
the claims.
As indicated by the examiner (Answer, page 12), Fehskens
discloses (column 30, lines 44-48) that for "historical data
stored in historical data file, the timestamp indicates the
instant of time at which a given data item had a particular
value. . . . [A] timestamp can be considered as a key or index."
Fehskens continues (column 30, lines 48-50) that "[a] scope of
interest time specification 123 may be used to request the
retrieval of a particular piece of stored information with a
given key or index." Fehskens explains (column 30, lines 62-65)
that such "[t]ime scopes of interest can be indicated by either
an absolute instant, a sequence of absolute instants, an interval
(start time 'START' and duration 'DUR'), a repetition of
instants, or a repetition of an interval." Further, "[i]ntervals
whose begin and end points are equal resolve into instants (e.g.
(TODAY, TODAY))" and " [i]ntervals in the past may have begin
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