Appeal No. 2006-1055
Application No. 09/752,355
particular user and a corresponding single session of that user
(“Based on a unique identifier, such as an IP number or session
id and a timestamp, the visitor identification module 230
determines which visitor record in the database 300 will need to
be updated”).
As indicated by the examiner, it is the claimed feature of
the servers, and the execution of the database query being
“across plural parallel processing modules” which is absent from
Muret.
But the examiner has identified the teaching of Tsuchida at
column 2, line 54 through column 3, line 18 suggesting parallel
processing in a database for the advantage of quicker processing.
With this teaching in mind, the examiner, reasonably in our view,
finds that the artisan would have been led to employing plural
parallel processing modules in Muret to speed up the processing
of that system.
Thus, the examiner has identified a deficiency of the prior
art system of Muret and has shown the deficiency to be taught in
Tsuchida, along with a reason for the artisan to have been led to
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