Appeal No. 2002-0814
Application No. 09/112,261
specification. The result rows 232 contain information of the
sample database 220 that satisfy the conditions of the sample
database query 210 and respectively correspond to the database
rows 222 of the sample database 220. The management system 10 in
step 112 analyzes the database result table generated in step 110
to determine whether the selected rule has been satisfied. See
page 15 of Appellants' specification.
Appellants' claim 1 is representative of the claimed
invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of determining the Boolean truth value of an
expression that incorporates an arbitrary reference to an
external database, comprising the steps of:
generating a database query that correlates to the
expression;
processing said database query in whole to obtain database
result information from the external database; and
resolving said expression into a Boolean truth value by
analyzing said database result information.
Reference
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Hendricks et al. 5,893,088 Apr. 6, 1999
(Hendricks) (filed Sep. 19, 1996)
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