Appeal No. 96-1534
Application 07/888,991
from the examiner's rejection of claims 25-30, which constitute
all the claims remaining in the application.
The claimed invention pertains to a method for optimizing
the access of information stored in a database file.
Representative claim 28 is reproduced as follows:
28. A method for optimizing the access of information
stored in a database file, the method comprising:
(a) entering a query condition; and
(b) accessing the specified information by any one of:
(1) referencing an index if one satisfying the query
condition exists or can be created;
(2) referencing an index if one defining a range of
records exists or can be created; and
(3) filtering records not meeting the condition as they
are accessed if (1) and (2) are not possible, or if the database
file is below a pre-selected size.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Kuechler et al. (Kuechler) 4,811,199 Mar. 07, 1989
Li et al. (Li) 5,265,246 Nov. 23, 1993
(effectively filed Dec. 10, 1990)
Claims 28-30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
being anticipated by the disclosure of Li. Claims 25-30 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the
teachings of Kuechler. In the examiner’s answer a new ground of
rejection was entered against claims 25-30 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by the disclosure of Kuechler.
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