Appeal 2007-2258
Application 09/738,054
demarcation unit at the customer’s premises receives signals on the outside
telephone wiring and drives the conventional telephone wiring in the inside
as a local-area network (LAN) by converting the received signals to the
protocol required by the LAN (id.).
Independent Claim 1 reads as follows:
1. A home networking system comprising:
conventional telephone wiring connected to telephone jacks in a
customer’s premises; and
a customer demarcation unit at the customer’s premises connected to
outside telephone wiring and to the conventional telephone wiring in the
customer’s premises;
wherein the customer demarcation unit receives Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) signals of multiple protocols from the outside
telephone wiring, translates the signals according to a single protocol
required by a local-area network (LAN) and retransmits the translated
signals over the conventional telephone wiring in the customer’s premises
according to the single LAN protocol.
The prior art references relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
claims on appeal are:
Chau US 5,764,750 Jun. 9, 1998
Goodman US 5,844,596 Dec. 1, 1998
The Examiner rejected claims 1 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Goodman and Chau.
We affirm.
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