Appeal No. 96-1115
Application 07/917,098
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 to 12, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method of communicating between first and second
nodes connected by a serial link, the method comprising the
steps of:
transmitting data between said nodes in the form of
packets, each packet comprising a plurality of predefined
fields, each field consisting of one or more multibit data
frames; and
controlling the flow of the data packets by means of
multiple bit control frames having the same bit length as the
data frames and being distinguishable from the data frames,
the control frames being transmissible independently of the
data packets.
The following references are relied by the examiner:
Tooley et al. (Tooley) 3,979,719 Sep. 7, 1976
Thorne 5,027,349 Jun. 25, 1991
Claims 1 to 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Tooley in
view of Thorne. Rather than repeat the positions of the
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