Patent decision

BL number

O/595/16

Concerning rights in

GB 1511187.5

Hearing Officer

Miss J Pullen

Decision date

19 December 2016

Person(s) or Company(s) involved

Shenzhen Audaque Data Technology Ltd

Provisions discussed

Section 1(2)

Keywords

Excluded fields (refused)

Related Decisions

None

Summary

The application relates to a method of measuring data quality in a scatter plot comprising an enormous number of data points and a system to perform the method. The invention seeks to reduce the number of data points that are analysed when applying data quality rules, by mapping a plurality of effective data points from a first data set to a single data point on a second data set. Non effective data points are corrected so as to avoid unnecessarily mapping across of null/erroneous data points.

Consequently, manipulating the second data set would take less processing steps than the manipulation of the first data set to achieve a similar data quality measurement.

The hearing officer found the contribution made by the invention to be a computer implemented mathematical method which falls solely in subject matter excluded under section 1(2) as a mathematical method and a program for a computer as such and no relevant technical effect was identified. The application was refused under section 18(3).

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