The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte JAMES DEAN HILDRETH ____________ Appeal No. 2002-0561 Application No. 09/410,531 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ 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.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007