Appeal No. 1997-0782
Application 08/158,029
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 15, which constitute all
the claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of searching for and retrieving records
included in a database provided in a computer network, the
network having a plurality of reception systems at which
respective users can request and retrieve respective records,
the method comprising the steps of:
a. providing record locators indexed to record
identifiers for the respective database records;
b. arranging multiple locators and respective indexed
identifiers in plurality of groups, the groups respectively
establishing predetermined subset searches of the database
records;
c. assigning code designations to the respective locator
groups;
d. generating a locator group code designation in
response to a request for a record so that a group of record
locators may be provided at the reception system and so that a
locator may be selected which enables identification and
retrieval of the record.
The following reference is relied upon by the examiner:
Cichelli et al. (Cichelli) 4,429,385 Jan. 31, 1984
Claims 1 through 15 stand rejected under the second
paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as being indefinite. Claims
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