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            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16         

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                             Ex parte JAMES DEAN HILDRETH                             
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                                 Appeal No. 2002-0561                                 
                              Application No. 09/410,531                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.          
          HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through         
          36.                                                                         
               The disclosed invention relates to a system and method for             
          performing data mining applications in which the data retrieved             
          from a relational database is reduced in bulk by reducing the               
          number of rows and columns in the data.                                     









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