Appeal 2007-0789
Application 09/810,063
5. According to the fourth step, in response to the third step, the user computer
receives a response packet from the second computer with the written high priority
header.
6. The fifth step involves a billing computer associated with the network
service provider which calculates a usage amount that includes an amount of time
the user computer uses the priority network.
Scope and content of the prior art
Odlyzko
7. Odlyzko is directed to a method for regulating “traffic over a packet
switched network in a way that fairly prioritizes the traffic without unfairly
penalizing low priority traffic … .” (Odlyzko, col. 2, ll. 50-53).
8. The Examiner found:
As for Claim 1, Odlyzko discloses a method for providing priority
network service, comprising:
determining, by a network service provider, that a user computer
system has requested priority network service (col. 6, lines 45-46; col. 7,
lines 16-21; Figs. 1-3);
writing, by the network service provider, a high priority header to one
or more packets originating from the user computer system, in response to
the determining (see Fig. 3 for the header and precedence (85); col. 6, lines
38-42);
sending the one or more packets with the high priority header from the
user computer system to a second computer system connected to a computer
network (said packets, for which said high priority headers are written, are
transmitted over the network between users’ terminals; Fig. 1, items 10, 50,
52 and 54);
receiving, by the user computer system, a response packet from the
second computer system, wherein the response packet includes the high
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