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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