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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