The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DEREK ROBERT JAMES
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Appeal No. 2001-2303
Application No. 09/029,581
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HEARD: JANUARY 7, 2003
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Before HAIRSTON, DIXON, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1 through 8.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for checking the consistency of an item of data in a cache
database with a respective item of data in a master database by
comparing a first key (e.g., a time-stamp) stored in association
with the item of data in the cache database with a second key
stored in association with an index entry for the respective item
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