Appeal 2007-1595
Application 09/751,858
1 The Appellants invented a way to overcome problems experienced in the art of
2 identifying, monitoring, and analyzing trends and patterns of interest within an
3 organization. More specifically, the invention performs date gap analysis to avoid
4 aggregation on calendar or other artificial boundaries; and presents the analysis as
5 a control chart to facilitate understanding of the data; it adds workload adjustments
6 to avoid false indicators; it presents its results in tabular and graphical data displays
7 to identify anomalous data and monitor data quality; and it provides a drill down
8 mechanism for investigating trends and anomalous data points in detail
9 (Specification 7). An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
10 of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
11 1. A system for facilitating statistical analysis of events, the system
12 comprising:
13 a first input device operable to receive raw data regarding the events,
14 including the nature, place, time, and date of each event, and convert
15 the raw data into formatted data having a suitable electronic format;
16 a memory storage device operable to store the formatted data;
17 a computer-readable medium encoded with a code segment operable
18 to enable a computer to perform date gap analysis and control chart
19 analysis on the formatted data and make workload adjustments thereto
20 to produce an analysis output, wherein the date gap analysis includes
21 determining an elapsed time between consecutive events and an
22 average elapsed time, and wherein the output indicates a value for
23 each elapsed time and a value for the average elapsed time;
24 a display device operable to display the analysis output; and
25 a second input device operable to allow a user to request a more
26 specific analysis of at least one identified event, with the identified
27 event being user-selected from the display.
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29 This appeal arises from the Examiner’s Final Rejection, mailed November 22,
30 2005. The Appellants filed an Appeal Brief in support of the appeal on July 20,
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