Appeal No. 95-0907
Application 07/774,757
The Rejections on Appeal
Claims 1-10 and 12-19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Wang and Rattan.
Claims 11 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Wang and Rattan and further in view of
the appellant's disclosed prior art.
The examiner has withdrawn a rejection of claims 1-20 under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being without adequate
written description in the specification. See advisory Office
action (Paper No. 14). Thus, that rejection is a non-issue.
The Invention
The invention relates to a testing apparatus for verifying
the conformity of a device under test with a standard
communications protocol. It sends a sequence of messages to a
device under test, which messages include a request for the
device to send back messages indicating which functions are
supported by the device under test. The testing apparatus
analyzes the return messages to determine conformity with the
standard application protocol. Claim 1 is representative and
reads as follows:
1. A test apparatus for verifying the conformity
of a device under test with a standard application
protocol defining the format, meaning and applicability
of messages to be received and transmitted by the
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