Appeal No. 2002-1687
Application No. 09/188,712
results. See page 17 of Appellants’ specification. Appellants’ independent claim 1
illustrates the Appellants’ claimed invention and is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of conducting a study for analyzing traffic through a
telecommunication network, comprising the steps of:
compiling detail records for a predetermined set of calls processed
through the telecommunication network, wherein calls of the predeter-
mined set are identified by parameters of the study;
loading the detail records into files in a database;
processing the files in the database to enrich the information of the
detail records in a manner facilitating the study;
uploading the enriched information to an on-line analytical
processing routine supporting interactive analysis for one or more users;
and
executing an application corresponding to the study, to present
study results, the application including said interactive analysis based at
least in part on the enriched information.
REFERENCES
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Brockman et al. (Brockman) 5,592,530 Jan. 07, 1997
Peters et al. (Peters) 5,724,584 Mar. 03, 1998
(filed Aug. 15, 1996)
Elliott et al. (Elliott) 5,768,352 Jun. 16, 1998
(filed May 10, 1995)
Malloy et al. (Malloy) 5,905,985 May 18, 1999
(filed Jun. 30, 1997)
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