Appeal 2007-0559
Application 10/037,659
12. In the Background portion of the specification (at 4: 8-14), it is further
described:
In RDBMS software, all data is externally structured into
tables. The SQL interface allows users to formulate relational
operations on the tables either interactively, in batch files, or
embedded in host languages such as C, COBOL, etc. Operators are
provided in SQL that allow the user to manipulate the data, wherein
each operator operates on either one or two tables and produces a new
table as a result. The power of SQL lies on its ability to link
information from multiple tables or views together to perform
complex sets of procedures with a single statement.
13. In the Background portion of the specification (at 4: 15-22), reference
is made to application 09/731,088, the disclosure of which is incorporated by
reference into the appellants’ specification, and it is described that in the system
disclosed therein message queuing functions are integrated with database
operations to combine message queuing communications and database access and
that the messaging functions are invoked by SQL statements.
14. In the Background portion of the specification (at 5: 1-11), it is
described that in the system disclosed in application 09/731,088, the messaging
data returned to a client is in the same format as it is in the messaging system and
therefore the client must perform several operations on the message string to put it
in a format usable by the database system. It is stated that a user would have to
write a conversion code within an application program or create additional user
defined functions to perform the conversion within an SQL statement.
15. Based on earlier description in the Background portion of the
specification, the Background portion ends with the following paragraph
(Specification 5: 13-18):
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