Appeal No. 2006-1055
Application No. 09/752,355
The examiner indicates that Muret fails to disclose that the
database system comprises plural parallel processing modules or
executing a database query across the plural parallel processing
modules to select the entries from the data.
The examiner turns to Tsuchida, at column 2, lines 54-58,
for a teaching of plural parallel processing modules as a means
to decrease the time required to search a database. The examiner
further indicates that Tsuchida teaches a plurality of parallel
processing modules including distribution nodes, join nodes, and
decision management nodes, at column 2, line 59 through column 3,
line 18.
The examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to
use plural parallel processing modules in the database system to
select the entries for a particular user from the data because of
the advantage of speeding up the process of sorting through the
data to select the desired entries (see pages 3-4 of the answer).
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