Appeal No. 2002-1844
Application 08/975,428
that appellants intend to be so limited. Any limitations should
be added by express claim language.
Appellants argue there is no suggestion to modify Hyodo with
a mapping module which transforms received data to be stored in a
data warehouse (Br19).
We do not find a response to this argument, so we rely on
the examiner's statement of the rejection.
The limitation at issue is "at least one data mapping
module, respectively connected to said at least one electronic
commerce data warehouse, searching and transforming the
electronic commerce data, and transmitting the electronic
commerce data transformed to said at least one electronic
commerce data warehouse." The "searching and transforming"
functions are much broader than the functions of "parsing,
categorizing, indexing, and formatting the data elements" in
independent claim 1. There is no question that Hyodo searches
the online access log and the telephone service access log which
correspond to the "data warehouse" in order to compute the hit
rate. However, we do not see what examiner considers to be the
"transforming" unless that it is equivalent to the "parsing,
categorizing, indexing, and formatting" in claim 1.
"Transforming" implies converting to a different state or thing,
which would be met by parsing, categorizing, indexing, and
formatting. It does not appear that the entries retrieved from
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