Appeal No. 2000-0935
Application 08/567,447
accessing the business information database
using the search engine to retrieve abstracts of
past business activity; and
retrieving the raw business information using a
data access manager to access data storage
facilities storing the raw business information.
14. A population engine accessible to selected
users and operable to parse raw business information
data and suggest key words to be used to access
abstracts of the raw business information data.
Discussion
A reversal of the rejection on appeal should not be
construed as an affirmative indication that the appellants’
claims are patentable over prior art. We address only the
positions and rationale as set forth by the examiner and on
which the examiner’s rejection of the claims on appeal is
based.
In the context of claim 12, raw business information is
parsed to provide “abstracts” of raw business information, and
those abstracts are stored in a business information database.
In the context of claim 1, a plurality of data repositories
exist each storing a plurality of “abstracts” of information
associated with business activities and the raw business data
associated with the abstracts are stored in a data storage
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