Appeal No. 1999-1598
Application 08/668,656
Rothfield (e.g., the Databases 2-4 and Source Tables 2-6 in
Fig. 3) are data files.
Designating a Sequence of Operations and a Field Range
Claim 1 recites "designating a sequence of user-specified
application program data operations on one or more data files;
. . . wherein the step of designating includes designating a
field range representing one or more data records contained in
a data file that will be used as input to the data operations
such that the execution of the data operations will occur on
the designated field range."
The Examiner finds that Rothfield teaches designating a
field range 6-2f at column 6, lines 5-68, and Figs. 5-9 (FR2).
Appellants argue that Rothfield cannot designate a
sequence of data operations on a designated field range of
data records contained in a data file because the query
language in Rothfield designates keys or columns of tables
(Br6). It is argued that the present invention designating a
field range of records refers to specifying a field name and
field length, wherein the field length can be a byte range
specified irrespective of data record values. Rothfield's
filter values permit a user to exclude data of an input table
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