Appeal No. 2002-1109
Application 09/316,436
OPINION
Claims 1-12
Claim 1
We begin by discussing how claim 1 reads on the disclosure.
The "attribute" in step (a) of claim 1 can be a word, a symbol, a
specific term, a number, name, location, organization, etc.
(spec. at 10, lines 15-17). The "first logging segment" of
step (a) corresponds to the table 10 in Fig. 1, where the
"attribute" consists of an "attribute name" entered by the user
and a unique "attribute number" (automatically generated when the
"attribute name" is entered by the user, spec. at 12,
lines 16-20) and where "information which indicates subordinate
relationships between attributes" refers to the "relative
attribute number" which is used to indicate subordinate
relationships (spec. at 11, lines 13-14). The "data lot" of
step (b) refers to a grouping of data, such as a document or data
file (spec. at 4, lines 18-19), which is linked to an
"attribute." The "second logging segment" of step (c) refers to
table 20 of Fig. 2, where each line indicates a "data lot,"
consisting of a "file number" and "location," and the "relative
property number" indicates a "link from data lots to attributes."
Haegele discloses a method for managing listings of indented
caption sets in a relational database of complete listings
(abstract). The example described is a method for managing
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