Appeal 2007-1443
Application 09/813,636
1 FACTS PERTINENT TO THE ISSUES
2 The following Findings of Fact (FF), supported by a preponderance of
3 substantial evidence, are pertinent to the above issues.
4 1) Morgan describes a flexible tool that not only tracks current operational
5 performance, but also provides the information for forecasts or budgets
6 (Morgan, col. 4, ll. 40-43).
7 2) Morgan provides forecast and budget reports (Morgan, col. 5, ll. 6-9).7
8 3) Morgan describes basic functions of the flexible tool, including identifying, for
9 each management organization, all of the activities to achieve prospective
10 business objectives (Morgan, col. 5, ll. 23-25).
11 4) Activities to achieve prospective business objectives are future actions which
12 will generate a result.
13 5) Thus, Morgan shows task entries comprised of defined types of future actions
14 which will generate a result.
15 6) Morgan determines the people, facilities and equipment associated with the
16 activities (Morgan, col. 5, ll. 56-58).
17 7) Determining the people, facilities and equipment associated with the activities
18 is a mapping of resources, such as people, facilities and equipment, with the
19 tasks defined as activities.
20 8) Thus, Morgan shows mapping a relationship between each of the task entries
21 and resource entries.
22 9) Morgan’s tool creates forecasts and budgets, including activity forecasts, with
23 estimated projections for equipment utilization, activity cost information and
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