Appeal No. 1999-1557
Application 08/650,397
system operation. However, claim 6 is
specific in limiting the "concurrent
recovery means" to the function of
"recreating said redundant database
concurrently with continuing operation of
said active database system means." It is
clear with reference to the specification
of this application that "recreating said
redundant database" involves a manifold
operation that not only copies, but updates
database contents in the database being
recreated during operation of the active
database system. All Naito does is "copy"
a down file . . . . [A] "down file" is
not, without judicial notice or citation
. . . a "redundant database."
Brief at pages 5-6.
The Examiner responds that although Naito calls his system a
file backup system, it contains many of the features that
belong to a database and not to a file management system.
Examiner’s Answer at page 8. Therefore, Examiner concludes
that Naito contains a database system even if it does not
specifically call it a database system. Examiner’s Answer at
page 8. The Examiner further states:
Naito teaches a system with records and a
backup with records . . . . One of skill
in the art would recognize that the rows
are records and the Goods code is a record
number or unique record identification key
. . . . [Naito] [i]n col. 4, lines 44-65
shows that the goods code is used to query
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