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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o89422

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Patent decision

BL number
O/894/22
Hearing Officer
Mr B Micklewright
Decision date
17 October 2022
Person(s) or Company(s) involved
International Business Machines Corporation
Provisions discussed
Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)
Keywords
Excluded fields (refused)
Related Decisions
None

Summary

The invention related to identifying patterns and relations between items in transactions where each processing node generated local frequency pattern trees which were then used to generate global conditional frequency pattern trees which are distributed to each processing node so that patterns, rules and relations between the items can be generated. The hearing officer found the invention to be excluded as a program for a computer as such and a method of doing business as such. He therefore refused the application.

Full decisionO/894/22 PDF document 261Kb

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