Appeal 2007-2745
Application 09/761,671
1 The Appellant invented a way to calculate and display a forecast of the impact
2 of user-specified or system generated changes in business value drivers on the
3 other value drivers, the elements, the components, the financial performance and
4 the long term value of a commercial enterprise that utilizes the information from a
5 detailed valuation of the enterprise (Specification 9:2-7).
6 An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
7 claim 69, which is reproduced below [bracketed matter and some paragraphing
8 added].
9 69. A current operation modeling method, comprising:
10 [1]
11 [a] integrating transaction data
12 [i] for a commercial enterprise
13 [ii] in accordance with a common data dictionary;
14 [b] using a neural network model
15 [i] to identify one or more value driver candidates
16 [ii] for each of one or more elements of value from said data,
17 [c] using an induction model
18 [i] to identify one or more value drivers from said candidates
19 and
20 [ii] define a contribution summary
21 [1] for each element of value
22 [2] for each of one or more aspects of a current operation
23 financial performance
24 [3] using said value drivers, and
25 [d] creating a plurality of network models
26 [i] that connect the elements of value
27 [ii] to aspects of current operation financial performance
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