Patent decision

BL number

O/386/21

Concerning rights in

GB1804928.8

Hearing Officer

Mr H Jones

Decision date

24 May 2021

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Innoplexus AG

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)(c)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The invention is concerned with pre-loading data relating to a network node to improve user experience. A network graph is a convenient way of representing large amounts of data. It provides a visual depiction of the data in the form of interconnected nodes. Each node represents records associated with an entity, and the interconnections between nodes depict the relationships between the entities. Conventionally a user selects a network node that they are interested in and then the records for that node are extracted. This may take some time, and the user experiences a lag. To mitigate this and improve the user experience, the invention analyses the user-™s activity and predicts which node the user is interested in before they actually select it. This enables the relevant records to be extracted in advance. The hearing officer found that this had the effect of overcoming a technical problem as opposed to solving it and thus found that no technical contribution was made. The application was refused.

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