Appeal No. 97-3660
Application 08/055,802
and convincing rationale to fit the stated ground of
rejection.
Accordingly, we will treat the rejection as one based
solely on the combination of Snodgrass and Risberg. To the
extent that the examiner had reasoning in mind, albeit
unexpressed, based on the appellants’ admitted prior art, this
case will be remanded to enable the examiner to reduce his
thoughts to writing and include them in the record.
The Invention
The invention is directed to a method for selecting and
representing time-varying data from a time-relational database
management system having a plurality of timestamped versions
of records (claims 1, 3, and 6) or time-differentiated records
(claim 10). The independent claims are claims 1, 3, 6 and 10.
On the basis of use of “composite records,” the
appellants have separately argued claims 3, 4, 5 and 10, as a
group, apart from claims 1, 2, 6-9, and 11-14, as a group.
Representative claims 1 and 3 are reproduced below:
1. In an interactive data entry system wherein
a user is presented with a data entry screen, a
method for selecting and representing time-varying
data from a time-relational database management
system having a plurality of timestamped versions of
3
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