Appeal No. 96-0546
Application No. 07/947,010
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 14
through 22. In view of appellants’ withdrawal of the appeal
of claims 17 and 19 (Brief, page 1), claims 14 through 16, 182
and 20 through 22 remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a bufferless switching
network.
Claim 14 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
14. A bufferless switching apparatus comprising:
a plurality of switch inputs and a plurality of switch
outputs;
connection means for establishing a requested
communication path between any one of the switch inputs and
any one of the switch outputs in response to a connection
request included in a data message received at said any one of
the switch inputs, said communication path for transmitting
the data message received at said any one of the switch inputs
to said any one of the switch outputs;
said connection means including asynchronous connection
means for establishing asynchronously a plurality of
simultaneously active requested communication paths between a
2The examiner’s contentions (Answer, page 6) to the
contrary notwithstanding, the withdrawal of claim 17 is not an
admission by appellants that the claim “is properly rejected
by the prior art of record.”
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