Appeal No. 1997-3581
Application No. 08/010,291
is defined and before a query is inputted (emphasis
added)....”
After careful review of the Heffernan reference, we are
in agreement with Appellant’s position as stated in the
Briefs. Our interpretation of the disclosure of Heffernan
coincides with that of Appellant, i.e. while queries are
examined and an “Access Plan” is developed for optimizing the
data retrieval, any such development takes place only after a
user inputs a query.
We take note of the fact that the Examiner, in addressing
the relevant portion of claims 1 and 6 cited supra, offers an
interpretation of the claim language that differs from the
plain meaning of the words in the claim. In the Examiner’s
analysis (Answer, page 6), the claim language “creating ...
execution procedures... before a query is inputted...” is
interpreted as “creating... execution procedures without
incurring I/O overhead related to data stored in actual
physical storage.”
We can find no basis on the record for the Examiner
interpreting the claim language in this manner. When not
defined
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