Appeal No. 2000-2220
Application 08/962,428
in a format having a two-digit calendar year and the current date
expressed in a format having a four-digit calendar year.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A computer-based system for inferring an output date
expressed in a format having a four-digit calendar year from a
historical input date expressed in a format having a two-digit
calendar year, comprising:
an application program operable to communicate an input
date parameter corresponding to the input date, the input date
parameter specifying a two-digit input year value;
an operating system operable to communicate a current
system date recognizable in a format having a four-digit calendar
year, the first two digits of the four-digit calendar year for
the current system date having a current century value and the
last two digits of the four-digit calendar year for the current
system date having a current two-digit value; and
a converter coupled to the application program and to
the operating system, the converter operable to receive the input
date parameter and the current system date and to recognize the
four-digit calendar year for the current system date, the
converter operable to compare the input year value with the
current two-digit value and, if the input year value is less than
or equal to the current two-digit value, to infer the first two
digits of the four-digit calendar year of the output date to be
the current century value.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Connor 5,806,067 Sep. 08, 1998
(filed Oct. 21, 1996)
Claims 1-4, 6-11, 13-17, 19 and 20 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure of
Connor.
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