Appeal No. 2004-0076
Application No. 09/477,463
indexes and existing indexes, to evaluate both types of indexes in evaluating index
configurations to select index configuration 302. Col. 9, ll. 4-17. Index selection tool
300 (by means of cost evaluation tool 320) also may invoke query optimizer 240 to
obtain a cost of each query of workload 304 for each candidate index configuration.
Query optimizer 240 estimates a cost and delivers an execution plan 241 (Fig. 3),
comprising the cost estimate, for use by index selection tool 300. Col. 11, l. 62 - col. 12,
l. 3.
In each instance -- obtaining information by means of what-if index creation tool
236 and obtaining information by means of query optimizer 240 -- the index advisor
invokes a stored procedure in the remote database management system in order to
obtain information for the index configuration.
For a prior art reference to anticipate in terms of 35 U.S.C. § 102, every element
of the claimed invention must be identically shown in a single reference, but this is not
an “ipsissimis verbis” test. In re Bond, 910 F.2d 831, 832, 15 USPQ2d 1566, 1567
(Fed. Cir. 1990). Chaudhuri uses the word “invoke” in describing the invention, but
does not use the word “procedure.” We agree with the examiner, and appellant does
not argue to the contrary (e.g., Brief at 6), that a “stored procedure” may refer simply to
a program module or computer-executable instruction that is stored for execution. The
term “stored procedure” thus may refer simply to a portion of element 236 or 240 of the
reference.
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