Appeal 2007-0719
Application 09/731,205
Appellants invented a distributed system (10) with a parallel
configuration for facilitating communication with a printer (marking engine
12) on a network (18) via an intelligent network interface (20). More
specifically, the intelligent network interface (20) segregates data received
from the network (18) to route received control data directly to the printer
(12) while forwarding received job data to the printer (12) via a printer
controller (16). (Specification 3.)
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention. It reads as follows:
1. A network document system including:
a document processing device,
a document processing device controller and
a network interface controller for communicating job data and control
data to and from a network, wherein the interface controller is disposed,
between the document processing device controller and the network, and in
parallel communication with the document processing device and document
processing device controller, for segregating the job data and the control
data, and wherein the segreaged control data is directly communicated
between the network interface controller and the document processing
device which document processing device controller is disposed between the
network interface controller and the document processing device for
translating the job data, which is communicated from the network interface
controller to the document processing device independently from the control
data, into data format executable by the document processing device.
In rejecting the claims on appeal, the Examiner relied upon the
following prior art:
Suzuki US 5,270,775 Dec. 14, 1993
Sorkin US 5,898,823 Apr. 27, 1999
Irie US 6,606,164 B1 Aug. 12, 2003
(filed Aug. 12, 1999)
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