Appeal 2007-0789
Application 09/810,063
specified.
In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the user is not
restricted to a single logical channel for all communications. Instead, each
application communicating over the network is capable of specifying a
logical channel. In this embodiment, the operating system or the network
connection would have to select a default logical channel for applications
that are not capable of selecting a logical channel or which the user has not
configured for logical channel selection.
(Odlyzko, col. 7, ll. 8-16).
7. Service requests are often sent to Internet Service Providers.
8. Claim 4 does not define the term “normal” in the phrase “a normal priority
header.” The Specification provides no definition for the term. “Normal” is
therefore given the plain meaning; i.e., the usual state (see Webster’s New World
Dictionary 925 (3rd Ed., 1988)(definition 2. for normal).
C. Principles of Law
We incorporate herein the Principles of Law set forth in the Principles of
Law section for claims 1-3, 6, 8-10, 13, and 15-17 above.
D. Analysis
Odlyzko discloses the capability to switch channels depending on the level
of quality service desired for the cost as well as the congestion level. (FF 5). One
of ordinary skill in the art reading this disclosure would understand that Odlyzko
encompasses switching from a channel for high priority service to another level of
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