Appeal No. 2002-1844
Application 08/975,428
Note that the "one or more options for data searching" and
"decision support user specified criteria," as broadly claimed,
can be predetermined and fixed options and criteria, and do not
require the ability of a user to perform new queries using
different search terms even though that may be what appellants
intended. The claimed "operational activities" reads on the "hit
rate" for the advertisement. Thus, we find that Hyodo discloses
"providing a decision support user with one or more options for
data searching from multiple data sources in the form of
operational activities responsive to decision support user
specified criteria," as recited in step (b).
Step (c) recites "structuring and storing the data elements
obtained in said step (b), including parsing, categorizing,
indexing, and formatting the data elements." Step (b) does not
mention "data elements," but we assume that the data elements are
the results of the data searching based on decision support user
specified criteria. It is noted that the limitation "structuring
and storing the data elements obtained in said step (b)" does not
require permanent storage in a database and can read on temporary
storage in the computer memory during the calculation and
analysis process. The examiner discusses that the data collected
at the website must include the number of visits per
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