Appeal 2007-0367
Application 09/782,149
Appellant's invention relates to a method and system for evaluating
and ranking a number of records. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed
invention and reads as follows:
1. A computer implemented method of evaluating a plurality of records,
each record having at least a first attribute and a second attribute, each of the
first attribute and the second attribute having an associated attribute value,
the method comprising:
a) first assigning a discretized attribute score for each of the attribute
values;
b) first sorting the plurality of records in to an order based on the
assigned discretized attribute scores associated with the first attribute;
c) second sorting the plurality of records in to an order based on the
assigned discretized attribute scores associated with the second attribute;
d) third sorting the plurality of records in to an order based on the
attribute values associated with at least the first attribute and the second
attribute, until records, which have different attribute values associated with
at least the first attribute or the second attribute, have been sorted to different
ranks; and
e) second assigning an evaluation score to each record which has
been sorted.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Powers US 6,604,084 B1 Aug. 05, 2003
(filed July 01, 1998)
Arthur Middleton Hughes, "Quick Profits with RFM Analysis," archived
February 8, 1999 at www.dbmarketing.com/articles/rfmtools.html. (Hughes)
"RFM for Windows," Database Marketing Institute, archived February 3,
1999 at www.dbmarketing.com/ams.html. (RFM for Windows)
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