Appeal 2007-1595
Application 09/751,858
1 axis and, in a larger display, would provide the actual numbers. Although Baum’s
2 Fig. 6 does not explicitly show the average, Baum clearly teaches the importance
3 of the average and a person of ordinary skill would have been led to display the
4 average given the importance ascribed by Baum.
5 Finally, the independent claims require drilling down in responding to a request
6 for more specific analysis of an event by displaying information regarding that
7 event. Dix teaches drilling down to request more specific analysis of the chart
8 portion selected (FF27). Dix shows that the types of charts this might apply to
9 include frequency distribution charts such as that shown as an embodiment of the
10 claimed invention (FF26).
11 From Baum’s application toward labor analysis, one of ordinary skill would
12 have been drawn to Jensen to find the actual data that ought to be collected, and
13 Jensen would have provided examples of the types of user interface and analysis
14 that would be appropriate. The combination of Jensen’s two dimensional charts of
15 accidents against frequency for a given time period and Baum’s teaching of time
16 gap analysis would have led a person of ordinary skill to Dix for techniques to
17 create Baum’s time gap analysis from Jensen’s two dimensional charts. Thus, it
18 would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to have applied
19 Jensen’s taught application of charting worker accidents to Baum’s date gap
20 analysis and improving the analytical capability of the resulting chart with Dix’s
21 drill down facility.
22 Dependent claims 2, 13, and 18 further require that data be received on a daily
23 basis. Certainly Baum’s collection of data regarding time between failures
24 suggests at least daily data collection, if not hourly or continuous, to provide
25 sufficient precision of the results. In any event, collection of data at a frequency
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