Appeal No. 2006-0558
Application 09/800,113
as extracting data from them. Appellant attempts to predicate
patentability on the word “extraction”.
Notwithstanding these considerations, there are at least two
aspects of the teachings of French that permits this more narrow
view anyway. Figure 5 of French is characterized as depicting
the three principal software modules that carry out the steps of
the general method of operation of French’s embodiment. A report
distribution module 180 in figure 5 is shown in detail in figure
13 which in context permits data that has already been stored in
a fax queue or a print queue or a general queue to be printed out
later in time, even overnight. Additionally, the figure 5
showing includes the module 140 labeled the report reader module
which is detailed in figure 8. The bottom portion of this latter
figure is depicted in Figure 12 which indicates that for a given
database already prestoring a queued report, a new physician may
be subsequently added such that data may be either faxed or
printed later in time to his own office once the correct fields
within the database have been established and a new doctor has
been matched to its availability.
The second compelling teaching within French that allows for
the later in time extraction by an external monitoring facility
of prior formatted data stored in a file of information is the
showing in figure 11. The augment report capability within
5
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