Appeal 2007-1401
Application 09/882,094
USPQ2d 1152, 1156 (Fed. Cir. 1988) (explaining the general evidentiary standard
for proceedings before the Office).
1. Huang discloses a system for supporting management decisions
associated with manufacturing of service supply chains and allows various
decision makers in the supply chain to view the supply chain from their own
perspective (Huang, col. 1, ll. 13-18).
2. Huang’s system includes a database 12 with a database management
system 14, supply chain information systems 15, decision support frames 16,
a user interface 18, a model engine 20, and a supply chain frame manager 24
(Huang, col. 4, ll. 51-59).
3. Huang’s system interfaces with the supply chain information
systems 15 through data exchanges between these systems and the database
12 (Huang, col. 5, ll. 35-37).
4. Huang’s system invokes a decision support thread 40 to capture and
process a user’s decision support request (Huang, col. 5, ll. 53-54).
5. Huang discloses that the database 12 includes structural information
and process information (Huang, col. 8, ll. 31-35).
6. The process information is dynamic and relates to demand, production
plan, etc. (Huang, col. 8, ll. 34-35).
7. Huang provides a sample of data included in process information in
Table 2, which includes a ProductID field (Huang, col. 9, Table 2).
8. As such, Huang discloses a database with a table of process
information that includes part data (e.g., ProductID).
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