Ex parte GARBER et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 1998-2815                                                        
          Application No. 08/648,790                                                  


          application.                                                                


               Appellants' invention relates to (1) a method of                       
          selecting a respirator including the step of executing program              
          code to determine a health effect for both a first and a                    
          second chemical and then executing program code to select a                 
          respirator based upon the health effects of the first and                   
          second chemicals and                                                        
          (2) a computer readable medium including program code stored                
          thereon including at least a database containing data on                    
          chemicals and respirators, and a non-standards based engine                 
          which when executed, performs the steps of (a) accepting first              
          and second chemicals entered by a user and (b) selecting a                  
          respirator based upon the database and the first and second                 
          chemicals which were entered by the user.  Representative                   
          claims 1 and 48 are set forth below.                                        


                    1.  A method of selecting a respirator comprising                 
          the steps, performed by a data processing system, of:                       
                    a) executing program code in the data processing                  
          system in order to determine a health effect of a first                     
          chemical;                                                                   

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