Appeal No. 2002-2318
Application 09/652,520
documents and can include other linked entities [Pirolli,
col. 3, lines 31-35], Pirolli simply has nothing to do with
selective aggregation of particular members of
multidimensional data in a database to improve run time
response. Instead, Pirolli deals with the analysis and
design of linked document collections and predicting
documents relevant to a given document [Pirolli, col. 1,
lines 15-20]. Therefore, Pirolli is in a separate field of
endeavor and its teachings are not reasonably pertinent to
the problem appellants are trying to solve – namely whether
and when to aggregate and store data measures in a
multidimensional database to optimize data storage and
retrieval.
We further conclude that, on the record before us,
there is absolutely no reason why one of ordinary skill in
the art would be motivated to include a threshold value as a
basis for comparing the number of descendants of a selected
level in Pouschine, let alone suggest including Pirolli’s
“activation threshold,” or any threshold, in Pouschine. Not
only is Pirolli’s activation threshold used for a completely
different purpose (determining the most visited web pages),
we find no adequate rationale for applying such a disparate
teaching to Pouschine.
Furthermore, we do not agree that Pouschine’s teaching
of not requiring all data cells to be pre-calculated
provides the requisite suggestion or motivation to combine
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