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; 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007