Appeal No. 2002-0614
Application No. 08/976,888
Powder Co. v. Ireco Inc., 190 F.3d 1342, 1347, 51 USPQ2d 1943,
1947 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
We observe that Walls relates to a system and method for
comprehensively and continuously indexing information stored in
one or more sources of information such as a data base (col. 3,
lines 48-50) by using descriptive indexing elements such as
titles of files or keywords (col. 4, lines 37-40). The portion
of table 1 relied on by the Examiner (col. 17, lines 40-49)
actually describes the location of a file that is to be indexed.
However, Walls neither discloses nor suggests using any means for
evaluating the received command to determine a first type of a
the first file which may indicate that the first file to be
retrieved is stored outside the local data processing. In that
regard, Walls merely refers to generator 234 which inserts
pointers in storage data structure so that records in storage
data structure are associated with each other by their primary
keywords (col. 19, lines 24-28) and, in fact, shows that the
location where the file is stored is already known and the access
command need not be evaluated.
We disagree with the Examiner that the feature of evaluating
the received command to determine the first type of the first
file is inherent in the system since Walls provides for a “Remote
Location” field for indexing data (answer, page 4). Although
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