Appeal No. 1997-1194
Application No. 08/084,668
including a reference to a cost value for a route represented
by the table entry;” (claim 1). In Appellant’s view (Brief,
page 7; Reply Brief, page 3), there is no cost value
associated with each table entry in the routing table in
Hokari, despite the fact that Hokari identifies his routing
table as a “least cost routing table.”
Appellant further attacks the Examiner’s position by
asserting that Shinohara, the primary reference utilized by
the Examiner to teach the routing of data packets between
LANS, does not suggest the use of virtual circuits or virtual
connections among a plurality of circuits (Brief, pages 8 and
9). After careful review of the Shinohara and Hokari
references in light of the arguments of record, we agree with
the Examiner’s stated position in the Answer. Although
Appellant would have us ignore Hokari’s designation of his
routing table as a “least cost routing table,” it is apparent
to us from the description of the operation of Hokari’s system
at column 1, lines 43 through 67 and column 3, lines 57
through 63, that such routing table clearly contains cost data
entries. These cost entries are referenced by the use of
digit conversion data which, on the receipt of a call setup
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