Ex Parte Hull et al - Page 2



          Appeal No. 2005-0742                                                              
          Application No. 10/274,579                                                        

                attribute by applying at least one combining policy to said                 
                collection of values, a method for displaying a                             
                representation of the evaluation of said at least one                       
                attribute on a display screen comprising the steps of:                      
                           displaying a representation of the evaluation                    
                status of said at least one attribute, wherein said at least                
                one attribute corresponds to an object in said object-                      
                focused workflow system;                                                    
                           displaying a representation of the evaluation                    
                status for each of said plurality of computation rules, each                
                of said computation rules defining whether a value should be                
                contributed to said at least one attribute; and                             
                           displaying a representation of said at least one                 
                combining policy, each of said combining policies defining a                
                manner in which said contributed data values are combined in                
                order to determine a final value for said at least one                      
                attribute.                                                                  
                The following references are relied on by the examiner:                     
          Ulug                             4,918,620         Apr. 17, 1990                  
          Romanovsky et al. (Romanovsky)   5,664,088         Sep.  2, 1997                  
          Tanaka et al. (Tanaka)           4,928,236         May  22, 1990                  
          Shasha                           5,809,212         Sep. 15, 1998                  
          Akhavan et al. (Akhavan)         6,269,276         Jul. 31, 2001                  
                (filed Mar. 31, 1998)                                                       
                Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.                   
          As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Shasha in                    
          view of Tanaka as to claims 1, 2, 4 through 11, 14 and 16 through                 
          20, with the addition of Akhavan as to claim 3.  Shasha in view                   
          of Tanaka, further in view of Ulug are relied upon to reject                      



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