Appeal No. 2001-1605
Application 08/735,168
thing may result for a given set of circumstances is not
sufficient.” Id. citing Continental Can Co. v. Monsanto Co.,
948 F.3d 1264, 1269, 20 USPQ2d 1746, 1749 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
We note that Bireley is dealing with the problem of shared
data database management systems comprising multiple database
management systems and a single copy of data. Bireley decomposes
long-running complex queries into a plurality of parallel tasks
allocated across the database management systems of a shared
database management system. See column 1, lines 5 through 11.
Bireley solves the problem of a shared database management system
having multiple database management systems in which each
database management system decomposes a large data intensive
query into multiple parallel tasks and allocates the parallel
tasks across the database management systems. Bireley’s shared
database management system comprises multiple database management
systems each of which has direct access to data stored on
multiple storage devices. Each database management system does
not have to communicate through another database management
system to access data. Each database management system is
further capable of decomposing a long-running complex query into
multiple parallel tasks. See column 5, lines 30 through 42, of
Bireley.
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