The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board Paper No. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ______________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ______________________ Ex parte HANUMA KODAVALLA and NAGAVAMSI PONNEKANTI ______________________ Appeal No: 2002-1758 Application No. 09/121,791 ______________________ DECISION ON APPEAL ______________________ 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 -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007