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                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for                             
                                    publication and is not binding precedent of the Board                                           
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                                  UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                         
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                                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                          
                                                    AND INTERFERENCES                                                               
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                            Ex parte HANUMA KODAVALLA and NAGAVAMSI PONNEKANTI                                                      
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                                                      Appeal No: 2002-1758                                                          
                                                   Application No. 09/121,791                                                       
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                                                    DECISION ON APPEAL                                                              
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               Before KRASS, DIXON and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                        
               KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                  
                                                    DECISION ON APPEAL                                                              
                       This is a decision on appeal from the final rejectionof claims 1-30, all of the pending                      
               claims.                                                                                                              
                       The invention is directed to a database system providing for high-concurrency access in                      
               B-Tree structures.                                                                                                   
                       Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:                                                 
                       1. In a database system, said database system storing a plurality                                            
                       of data records as a data table having an index, said index                                                  


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