Appeal No. 2003-1046
Application 09/100,934
adding 635 to said sum when the last three integers of said
sum is in excess of 365 to generate a new date file
representative of a new calendar date.
6. A series of operational steps to be performed by a
computer, said steps comprising:
storing a plurality of date files within the computer, each
said date file having 7 integers including;
a 4-digit decimal year represented in the first four
integers of said 7 integers;
a 3 digit decimal day represented in the last three integers
of said 7 integers;
in a central processing unit of the computer, subtracting
said 7 integers of one of said plurality of date files to said 7
integers of another said plurality of sate files to generate a
sum; and
subtracting 635 to said sum when the last three integers of
said sum is in excess of 365 to generate a new date file
representative of the number of years and days difference between
the date files.
Reference
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
Adamchick 5,761,668 Jun. 2, 1998
Rejection at Issue
Claims 5 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Adamchick.
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