Appeal 2007-1492
Application 10/061,813
client. Claim 4 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
4. A method comprising:
storing program data for an electronic program guide in multiple
tables, each table comprising one or more records with one or more fields
and at least two said tables are related such that one said record in one said
table indexes another said record in another said table, wherein the records
comprise program records containing programming information, individual
program records having a title field to identify a program name; and
sorting the records in the tables according to a selected field type prior
to delivery of the program data to a remote client and the sorting comprises
arranging the program records in the tables according to a stopped name
version of the program name in the title field.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims are:
Byrne US 5,990,883 Nov. 23, 1999
Rodriguez US 2002/0059623 A1 May 16, 2002
(filed Jul. 30, 2001)
Claims 14 through 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Rodriguez.
Claims 4, 9, 18, 21, and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Rodriguez in view of Byrne.
We refer to the Examiner's Answer (mailed October 12, 2006) and to
Appellants' Brief (filed August 15, 2006) and Reply Brief (filed
December 12, 2006) for the respective arguments.
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