Appeal No. 2002-1109
Application 09/316,436
can traverse these attributes in Fig. 2. The rejection of
claim 6 is sustained.
Claim 7
The examiner's reliance on column 1, line 39, to column 2,
line 67 (EA4) is not specific enough to be helpful. The examiner
then points to column 6, lines 1-19 (EA12). This portion of
Haegele should have been pointed out in the first instance.
Nevertheless, Haegele is short enough that appellant is
responsible for all its teachings. We agree that column 6
discloses a text search to locate an attribute and then retrieve
a data lot. The rejection of claim 7 is sustained.
Claim 8
When the table of Figs. 1 and 2 in Haegele is created,
updated, or revised to add a new row entry, the user must be able
to specify a name for the attribute (the word in Figs. 1 and 2)
and must be able to specify to which attribute the new entry is
subordinate. This information is put into a row entry.
Column 5, lines 60-67, discusses updating or revising the pre-
index table. The rejection of claim 8 is sustained.
Claim 9
Haegele permits searching by specifying an attribute to
retrieve data lots from the relational database (col. 5,
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