Ex Parte Voleti et al - Page 6




         Appeal No. 2006-2336                                                       
         Application No. 09/849,916                                                 

                   is found, the application analyzes the data                      
                   and gives the information to the user                            
                   interface.                                                       
                   [0027] The user initiates the analysis at                        
                   210, and selects a frame to analyze at 215.                      
                   The function code is obtained from the frame                     
                   at 220, and the function code format is                          
                   searched for from the text file at 225.  If                      
                   the function code format is not found at 230,                    
                   block 235 indicates that a new function code                     
                   frame format is not available, and a new                         
                   function format messages is returned at 240                      
                   to the user.                                                     


              Thus, representative claim 1 does require the use of a text           
         file to identify function codes for a selected frame, wherein the          
         identified codes are subsequently used to calculate the field              
         values for each data packet in a selected frame.                           


              Now, the question before us is what Henrikson would have              
         taught to one of ordinary skill in the art?  To answer this                
         question, we find the following facts:                                     


                   At column 4, line 53 through column 5, line 23,                  
                   Henrikson discloses the following:                               
                        The software of the present invention                       
                   which controls the operations of the computer                    
                   system 10 and the connected peripherals, is                      
                   stored within the mass storage device 26.  In                    
                   the alternative, the software could be stored                    
                   as firmware within the IEEE 1394 serial bus                      
                   network data capture and analyzer device.                        

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