Appeal No. 2002-0814
Application No. 09/112,261
satisfies the criteria of the database query. Since much of the
processing of a database query by a database is akin to the
processing required to resolve a Boolean expression to a truth
value, what is needed is a method and apparatus that evaluate an
arbitrary Boolean expression by off loading a portion of the
processing burden to a database, and resolving the Boolean
expression based upon results obtained from the database. See
page 2 of Appellants' specification. It is the object of
Appellants' invention to provide a method and apparatus that
evaluates an arbitrary Boolean expression in a manner that does
not require evaluation of the Boolean expression and to off-load
a portion of the processing of a Boolean expression to a
database. See page 4 of Appellants' specification.
As illustrated in Figure 2, the management system 10
includes an event log 20, an event log monitor 22, a user
interface 23, a database 24, and a rules processor 26. See page
6 of Appellants' specification. The user interface 23 provides a
graphical interface that enables a user to define rules, and
associate an action or a group of actions to each defined rule.
See page 6 of Appellants' specification. The user interface 23
limits a user to defining a rule as either a series of conditions
that are joined by a logical AND operator, or a series of
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