Appeal No. 2006-1534
Application No. 09/829,007
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a system for scoring an asthma severity for a
patient. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A system for scoring an asthma severity for a patient based on
information entered by a user regarding the patient comprising:
means for questioning the user regarding the patient,
means for accumulating a score for at least one indicator based on
answers entered by the user to the questions,
means for correlating the accumulated score to at least one indicator
level, and
means for informing the user of the at least one indicator level from
said correlating means.
PRIOR ART
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Finkelstein et al. (Finkelstein) 6,283,923 September 4, 2001
(filed June 3, 1998)
Brown et al. (Brown ‘163) 5,879,163 March 9, 1999
Brown (Brown ‘469) 6,375,469 April 23, 2002
(filed September 13, 1999)
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