Appeal No. 2003-0843 Page 2
Application No. 09/198,728
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to methods and apparatus for
designing packet-based networks, and more particularly, for
designing IP (Internet Protocol) networks with performance
guarantees (specification, page 1). An understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A processor-based method for designing a packet-based
communications network, comprising the steps of:
augmenting an initial network topology containing links and
associated capacities with one of additional links and
capacities; and
repeating the augmenting step until flow demands associated
with at least one connection can be routed in the packet-based
communications network.
No prior art references have been relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims.
Claims 1-42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §112, first
paragraph, as being non-enabled.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed
May 21, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support of
the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 12, filed
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