Appeal 2007-0559
Application 10/037,659
Accordingly, a need exists for accessing messaging data and
automatically converting that data into relational table format. The
method and system also should allow the client to perform database
operations on the messaging data in a single SQL statement. The
present invention addresses such a need. (Emphasis added)
16. In the Summary portion of the specification, it is stated (at 6: 10-13):
“The user is no longer required to perform conversion steps because the
conversion is automatically performed by the table function.”
17. Drexler discloses a system in which data from an e-mail message is
transferred to locations such as records, tables, and/or fields of a database.
(Drexler, 1, ¶ 5)
18. In Drexler’s system, as is illustrated in its Figure 1, a utility program
called “email to database import utility program” 40 is provided which has access
to an association 60 and a database 80. (Drexler, 2, ¶ 25)
19. In Drexler on page 2, Paragraph No. 28 reads as follows:
The email to database import utility program 40 preferably
receives the email message 10 as shown at 20. The utility program 40
uses an association 60 to associate and save certain data from the
email message 10 to appropriate records, tables or fields in the
database 80. The utility program 40 preferably determines whether
data from the email message 10 should be saved to the database 80,
and the association 60 identifies which data from the email message
10 is to be saved, and which fields the data is to be saved in the
database 80. These determinations by the utility program 40 and/or
the association 60 are further explained below.
20. In Drexler on page 2, it is described in Paragraph No. 28 that database
80 may be a commercially available or privately created program.
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