Appeal No. 2002-0814
Application No. 09/112,261
management system 10 in step 104 selects a rule from the rule
list. After selecting a rule, the management system 10 in step
106 generates a database query which represents a Boolean
expression that evaluates to true if and only if the conditions
defined by the selected rule have been satisfied. See page 13 of
Appellants' specification. For example, a sample rule 200 is
shown in Figure 5. The sample rule 200 includes conditions 202
that must be satisfied before associated actions 204 are
executed. The sample rule 200 is expressed as a Boolean
expression 206 that includes sub-expressions 208. The management
system 10 constructs a database query 210 that requests all rows
of information stored in the database 24 that satisfy the Boolean
expression 206. See page 13 of Appellants' specification. After
constructing the database query, the management system 10
generates in step 108 a database result table including each row
of information of the database 24 that satisfies the criteria of
the database query. See page 14 of Appellants' specification.
Figure 6 illustrates the contents of a sample database 220
and the contents of a sample database result table 230. The
sample database 220 includes database rows 222 in which are
stored information, and the sample database result table 230
includes result rows 232. See page 14 of Appellants'
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