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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte VENUGOPAL P. REDDY and
HARMINDAR S. MATHARU
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Appeal No. 2002-2318
Application 09/652,520
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative
Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-18 which
constitute all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to optimizing data
storage and retrieval in multidimensional database systems
with data organized in hierarchical levels. In particular,
the invention determines which intersections are precomputed
and whether certain data is prestored at an intersection.
To this end, a predetermined threshold level is set for a
selected level of the database. If a member of the selected
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