Appeal No. 95-1402
Application No. 07/936,507
page 5.) We disagree, but note that the reformatting disclosed by Reiter does not appear
to be the same as that set in the claim. A close review of the Reiter patent shows that the
relevant portions cited by the examiner, when taken in context of the entire teaching of
Reiter, merely teaches that the data is formatted or converted into a common format in
preparation of the output to the user at the user terminal. This is a common format for
presentation of the data to the user rather than a “reformatting the collected operational
data into a single format” as recited in claim 1. Claim 1 further requires that:
[A] plurality of operator stations disposed in proximity to the respective
addresses in the paper mill and being in communication with the global data
base manager, each said operator station being operative to display data
communicated thereto and capable of correlating and reformatting said data
to analyze the effects of operational changes at one location in the mill on
performance at that location or at other locations in the mill.
Reiter appears to teach the later reformatting of the data communicated thereto. Reiter
clearly does not teach both reformatting functions as set forth in the language of claim 1.
Reiter generally discloses the problem of having various computer systems as
does Lavigne, but neither discloses the reformatting of the operational data to a common
or single format as set forth in claim 1. Reiter is mainly concerned with end user
reformatting and user-friendly presentation of the reformatted data rather than reformatting
operational data. (See abstract.) Reiter further elaborates upon the ADAM (Associative
Data Access Method) interface as emulating the dialogues of the respective processors
and databases. This emulation is performed in the protocols, logons data base managers
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