Appeal No. 2006-2336
Application No. 09/849,916
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates generally to a method, a system
and a computer-readable medium for allowing a controller (110) to
analyze packets of data in frames on a process control bus (115).
Upon the user’s selection of a frame (215) to be analyzed, a text
file is used to identify function code formats (220) that are
embedded in the selected frame. Subsequently, the identified
code formats are used to identify the values for the fields (250)
in the data packets included in the frame.
Claim 1 is representative of the claimed invention and is
reproduced as follows:
1. A computer implemented method of analyzing frames on
a process control bus, the method comprising:
selecting a frame to be analyzed;
using a text file to identify function code formats; and
calculating values for fields based on the function code
formats.
Reference
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Henrikson 5,923,673 Jul. 13, 1999
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