Ex Parte Tomlinson et al - Page 6




               Appeal No. 2005-0100                                                                           Page 6                   
               Application No. 09/962,744                                                                                              


                       Here, Kreiner employs "a memory map to provide listing information representing                                 
               data within a database."  Col. 6, ll. 3-4.  "The memory map comprises an index related                                  
               to the database's data and relationship information about the data-to-data relationships                                
               within the database's data."  Id. at ll. 7-10.  "[T]he index 230 may . . . include geographic                           
               elements for a listing and display numbers for a listing.  Geographic elements associate                                
               a listing with a city, county, community, street name, or other geographical feature."                                  
               Col. 13, ll. 59-62.  "[W]here the database 40 contains classified advertising data, the                                 
               index 230 may include, amongst other things, the categories and identifiers as listed in                                
               Table 1," col. 14, ll. 11-13, of the reference.  "Referring now to Table 1, 'Attorneys' and                             
               'Buckhead' are each a description of a category by which the information within the                                     
               database 40 may be organized.  Each of these categories is one of a predefined type of                                  
               category within the Index 230."  Id. at ll. 23-27.  "[E]ach category is referenced by a                                 
               distinct numeric identifier.  For example, the Attorneys category is a                                                  
               LOB (Line of Business) type of category having numeric identifiers of 1730 for the LOB                                  
               type of category and 105 for Attorneys.  The Buckhead category is a community type of                                   
               category having numeric identifiers of 21274 for the community type of category and 37                                  
               for Buckhead."  Id. at ll. 27-34.                                                                                       













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