Appeal No. 2002-0348
Application No. 09/176,416
OPINION
In rejecting claims under 35 U.S.C. 103, the initial burden
is on the examiner to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness.
In the instant case, the examiner applies Halvorson to teach
the claimed subject matter but for processing the transactional
information in the archival database and generating at least one
report for receiving the transactional information from the
centralized archive and for processing it; transferring the
transactional information in the centralized archival database;
detecting patterns and abnormalities in distribution and usage;
using a programmed processing unit to detect the patterns and
abnormalities and generating at least one report for a defined
period of time; processing the transactional information in the
database so as to generate a report; the client analyzer module
comprising means for processing the transactional data received
from the client profile module to identify discrepancies; the
processing step comprising adjusting the transactional
information data so as to group stations of like providers; the
processing step further comprising grouping the data source
stations by patient care unit; grouping the transactional
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