Appeal No. 1996-4025
Application 07/995,591
payloads between said staging means and said ATM switches,
said MCM means asynchronously popping said transmit cell
payloads from said staging means and packing said transmit
cell payloads before transmitting them to said ATM switches,
and unpacking said receive cell payloads upon receiving them
from said ATM switches before pushing them into said staging
means, said MCM means further maintaining said DMA state
blocks.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as
follows:
Hedlund 5,136,584 Aug. 4, 1992
Yanagi et al. (Yanagi) 5,280,475 Jan. 18, 1994
(filed Aug. 14,
1991)
Burrows 5,303,302 Apr. 12, 1994
(filed June 18,
1992)
Claims 29 and 30 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102 as being anticipated by Hedlund. Claims 1, 3 through 5,
8, 11, 13 through 15, 18, and 23 through 26 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hedlund in
view of Burrows. Claims 6 and 16 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hedlund in view of
Burrows and Yanagi.
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