Appeal No. 2002-1109
Application 09/316,436
are "001002," which is considered a relative attribute number
because it is an attribute number for the subordinating attribute
of "Auto." Claim 3 does not preclude the relative attribute
number from being part of the attribute number. Accordingly, the
rejection of claim 3 is sustained.
Claim 4
The CSOID, IOID, and LOID 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 "an identification of a data lot" in the relational
database and the word in the row is "an identification of an
associated attribute." The rejection of claim 4 is sustained.
Claim 5
We do not find a "file number" and a "file location" in
Fig. 2 of Haegele. The examiner's reliance on column 3, line 62,
to column 4, line 60 (EA4) is not specific enough to be helpful,
and the reliance on the LOID and CSOID (EA11) is not persuasive
because these are keys to the relational database, not file
numbers or file locations. The rejection of claim 5 is reversed.
Claim 6
Haegele discloses that the CSOID "contains the complete
hierarchy and navigational tree" (col. 6, lines 20-22). The user
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