Appeal No. 96-3763
Application 07/946,509
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 20 through 24, 27 through 31 and 34 through 36.
Pending claims 17 through 19, 25, 26, 32 and 33 are expressly
not appealed. Accordingly, claims 17 through 19, 25, 26, 32
and 33 are not before us and we make no representations as to
the propriety of any rejection applied against these claims.
We consider these claims merely for the limitations recited
therein which clearly form part of the dependent claims 20
through 24, 27 through 31 and 34 through 36 which are ap-
pealed.
The invention pertains to a hardware-implemented
message header generation apparatus. The header generator
automatically generates and prefixes a header to the data
message sent from a node to a switch apparatus. Among other
things, the header generator includes means for maintaining
selected header fields constant for each data message sent to
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