Appeal No. 2002-1844
Application 08/975,428
the online access log and the telephone service access log can be
said to be transformed and then stored back in the data storage.
The data in the access logs are not changed or transformed in any
way; the program just uses the data in the logs. And, as stated
in connection with claim 1, we do not find the steps of parsing,
categorizing, indexing, and formatting to be obvious or inherent
in Hyodo. Accordingly, we conclude that the examiner has failed
to establish a prima facie case of obviousness as to claim 16 and
it is not necessary to address the rest of the limitations or the
rest of appellants' arguments. The rejection of claims 16-22 and
33-35 over Hyodo is reversed.
Gerace
Appellants argue (Br23): (1) Gerace is nonanalogous art;
(2) there is no suggestion or motivation to modify Gerace as
suggested by the examiner; and (3) even if Gerace were
modifiable, it would still fail to disclose or teach all
limitations of the rejected claims, especially step (b) of
claim 1 and the mapping module searching for data of claim 16.
As with the rejection over Hyodo, the determinative issue is
whether the functions of "parsing, categorizing, indexing, and
formatting the data elements" in claim 1 are inherent in Gerace
and would have been obvious, and whether the "transforming"
function of the mapping module in claim 16 is inherent or would
have been obvious. As with the rejection over Hyodo, we assume
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