Appeal 2007-1595
Application 09/751,858
1 user-selected from the display. (Answer 3-4).
2 The Examiner further found that Jensen provides various examples of date gap
3 analysis and control chart analysis and also allows information regarding
4 corrective actions responsive to workplace incidents to be recorded and displayed.
5 The Examiner found, however, that Jensen does not expressly teach that a code
6 segment makes workload adjustments based on these analyses (Answer 5).
7 To overcome this deficiency, the Examiner took Official Notice of the
8 notoriety to adjust workloads accordingly in response to dangerous working
9 conditions. The Examiner argued that since Jensen is directed toward analysis of
10 workplace-related injury and accident statistics that it would have been obvious to
11 one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of Applicant's invention to modify Jensen
12 to generate corrective actions involving workload adjustments in order to extend
13 the usefulness of Jensen's invention to industries where many workers are
14 negatively affected by poor workload conditions (Answer 5). Furthermore, the
15 Examiner contends that automation of a well-known manual process would have
16 been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of Applicant's invention
17 (Answer 5-6).
18 The Examiner further found that Jensen does not expressly disclose that its
19 computer-executed date gap analysis includes determining an elapsed time
20 between consecutive events and an average elapsed time, wherein the output
21 includes a value for each elapsed time and a value for each average elapsed time.
22 To overcome this deficiency, the Examiner first notes that in Jensen, accidents may
23 be graphed or charted based on frequency by day of week, time of day, and over a
24 given period of time, such as a month, year, or specified date range (Answer 6).
25 The Examiner then found that Pfeiffer discusses Teksid Aluminum Foundry
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