Appeal No. 2006-1055
Application No. 09/752,355
modules, and it is not obvious that the program could be executed
in such a manner, then Tsuchida’s teaching of plural parallel
processing modules as a means to decrease the time required to
search a database is of no help in suggesting the modification to
Muret to include plural parallel processing modules.
We have reviewed the evidence before us, including the
disclosures of the applied references and the arguments of
appellants and the examiner, and we conclude therefrom that the
examiner has established a prima facie case of obviousness that
has not been successfully rebutted by appellants.
Taking claim 1 as exemplary, Muret clearly teaches the
loading of data from one or more transaction logs of one or more
Internet servers, where the data includes an entry for each
request to the Internet server, including information identifying
which user submitted the request and information identifying the
time at which the request was received. Note paragraph 0071 at
page 4 of the reference.
Paragraph 0071 of Muret also suggests the execution of a
database query to select data for all entries associated with a
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