Appeal No. 2006-2336
Application No. 09/849,916
With the above discussion in mind, we find that with regard
to representative claim 1, the Henrikson reference teaches an
IEEE 1394 serial bus network data capture and analyzer (10) for
capturing and analyzing data communications transmitted over the
IEEE serial bus network (46). Particularly, Henrikson teaches a
device that allows a user to specify the occurrence of certain
events such as a packet header, a field, a data pattern, an
error, a specific time or a cycle event or the like as a pre-
condition for capturing data. The user-specified trigger event
is then translated into a predetermined sequence of digital data,
which is used to implement capture filters that will trigger the
data capture on the serial bus. One of ordinary skill in the art
would have duly recognized that Henrikson’s teachings do not
amount to 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, as required by the representative claim. The
ordinarily skilled artisan would have readily recognized that
Henrikson, at best, teaches a text file (filters) for identifying
and capturing certain packets on the serial bus when a match
occurs between the packets on the bus and the corresponding user-
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