Appeal No. 1997-3835
Application No. 07/922,273
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a method and system for process queue
communications routing at a node in a communications network. An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A method of routing messages received from a communications
network at a communications node to selected computer programs within
the communications node, comprising the steps of:
receiving at said communications node, a message from said
communications network addressed to said communication node, which
includes a message type designation and data;
searching a router table stored at said communications node, using
said message type designation as a query term, to get a process queue
name for a process queue in said communications node, each process
queue associated with a computer program in said communications node;
writing said data to said process queue having the process queue
name;
processing said data by said computer program associated with
said process queue.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Rhodes et al. (Rhodes) 4,896,290 Jan. 23, 1990
Boese et al. (Boese) 5,084,816 Jan. 28, 1992
Terry 5,119,370 Jun. 02, 1992
Ben-Ayed et al. (Ben-Ayed) 5,218,676 Jun. 08, 1993
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