Appeal No. 2002-1109
Application 09/316,436
the limitation of "allowing the user to specify one or more
attributes to be linked to the data lot" (emphasis added) to be
met by specification of one attribute because of the alternative
word "or." Thus, Haegele implicitly meets step (b).
Appellant argues that step (c) is not shown by Haegele and
there is nothing in Haegele that discloses entries with links
from data lots to indents (Br8).
Figure 2 of Haegele is considered to contain the information
of both the first and second logging segments. The CSOID, LOID,
and IOID, are used as numeric keys to index the table of Fig. 2
to the relational database to retrieve data from the database
(col. 5, lines 46-51). Thus, the CSOID, LOID, and IOID are links
from data lots (data in the relational database) to attributes
(words identifying an indentation in Fig. 2), as claimed.
For the reasons discussed above, we sustain the rejection of
claim 1.
Claim 2
As discussed in connection with claim 1, Figs. 1 and 2 are
both considered "first logging segments." In Figs. 1 and 2, each
row is an entry, where the word, e.g., "Men's," is the
"identification of an attribute." In Fig. 1, the level of
indentation, indicated by the number in parenthesis, is "an
indication of any subordinating attribute" because it indicates
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