Appeal No. 2002-1686
Application No. 09/188,680
As shown at step S51 of Figure 5, the process essentially
begins with the user inputting a number of study selections. See
page 49 of Appellants' specification. The network elements
monitor the records, and filter the records by parameters (S52),
based on the input selections. In step S53, the monitoring
equipment transmits the records to the landing zone 50. In step
S54, the landing zone 50 loads the records into the tables for
this study establishing the appropriate relational database 60.
See Figures 5 and 6 and Appellants' specification page 50.
In step S55, the data preparation routine 70 prepares a
staging table and possibly one or more summary tables. This
involves various translations using reference data, the binning
or spreading of records to properly allocate usage time and the
loading of data into the appropriate tables. The staging table
includes all of the CDRs, as enriched in the data preparation
stage. See page 51 of Appellants' specification. The data
preparation routine 70 loads the tables into the MDDB software 81
in step S56. Within the MDDB software, a study application is
run to present the data to the user in step S57. In our example,
the study application relates to one of several types of study of
interconnect traffic interconnected to or from a CLEC. See page
52 of Appellants' specification.
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