Appeal 2006-2504
Application 09/422,998
THE INVENTION
The disclosed invention relates generally to notification of system
attributes, and more specifically to a reporting application that derives data
about system attributes according to a query specified by a client. The
reporting application reports to the client the existence of specified attribute
conditions, such as changes in the attributes (Specification 1).
Representative claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A computer method of reporting existence of a specified condition in
a system attribute, said method comprising:
receiving by a reporting application, which includes computer-
executable software code stored to a computer-readable medium, a request
from a client to notify said client of a condition of an attribute of a system,
wherein said request comprises information specifying a query for said
system attribute;
using by said reporting application said query for querying said
system as specified by said request, for existence of said condition of said
attribute;
receiving by said reporting application raw data from said system;
deriving said data about said system attribute to determine if said condition
exists; and
upon determining that said condition exists, notifying said client of
the existence of said condition.
THE REFERENCES
The Examiner relies upon the following references as evidence of
unpatentability:
Wookey US 6,182,249 B1 Jan. 30, 2001
Wookey US 6,023,507 Feb. 8, 2000
(Note: Wookey ‘507 is incorporated by reference into Wookey ‘249)
Sybase, “Transact-SQL User's Guide”, Chapters 1, 2, 7, 8 and 14.
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