Ex Parte Santos et al - Page 18

            Appeal 2007-1595                                                                                 
            Application 09/751,858                                                                           

        1   sufficient to achieve the level of required output precision would have been                     
        2   understood and well within the ability of one of ordinary skill.                                 
        3       Dependent claims 3, 10, 15, and 19 further require that the events involve                   
        4   employee illness and injury.  Jensen specifically collects data involving employee               
        5   injury (FF 22).  Illness, being another common reason for employee absence, that                 
        6   might be the result of accidents in certain (e.g. biological and chemical) industries,           
        7   would have been immediately envisaged from Jensen’s teachings.                                   
        8       Dependent claims 4 and 5 require chart and tabular outputs that are shown in                 
        9   Jensen and Dix (FF05 & 27).                                                                      
       10       Dependent claim 6 requires an input device such as a mouse and dependent                     
       11   claim 8 requires parts of the software be on two separate computers in                           
       12   communication with each other shown by Jensen (FF21).                                            
       13       Dependent claim 9 requires separating data according to predefined separation                
       14   criteria shown by Jensen (FF05).                                                                 
       15       Dependent claims 11, 16 and 20 require more specific analysis resulting in date              
       16   gap analysis, control chart analysis and workload adjustment.  Since Dix describes               
       17   drilling down as providing more detail of the underlying analysis, such drilling                 
       18   down would therefore result in any further analysis of the types, viz. data gap,                 
       19   control chart and workload adjustment, performed in the underlying analysis                      
       20   according to the preference of the person directing the analysis.  The same process              
       21   of drilling down would result in the requirement of dependent claim 21 on different              
       22   data sets.  Displaying multiple analyses simultaneously in any operating system                  
       23   since the advent of windowing systems is certainly immediately envisaged by one                  
       24   of ordinary skill in the art.                                                                    

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