Appeal No. 2000-1250
Application No. 08/662,077 Page 8
From the disclosure of Ramstrom, we find that Ramstrom is
directed to adding functionality to the system, and is not
directed to controlling a plurality of switches, each of which
responds to a different set of native messages. Nor is Ramstrom
directed to providing a generic message interpreter to interpret
generic messages to control switches which respond to native
switch messages.
Astmann is directed to a distributed processing message
delivery system for controlling the distribution of variable
length messages within a telephone system (col. 1, lines 6-15).
To improve the ability of the central processor to pass messages
to various remote processors, the information from the main
processor, in accordance with predefined functions, is sent as an
entire group of submessages within a single message packet (col.
1, lines 6-9, 21-24, 52-62). In addition, the message can
consist of any number of sub-messages, provided that all of the
messages are destined for the same port processor and they are
all of a general type (col. 3, lines 18-20, and figure 2).
From the disclosure of Astmann, we find that Astmann is directed
to providing improved communications between processors in a PBX
system. We find no disclosure of controlling a plurality of
switches, each of which responds to a different set of native
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