Appeal No. 96-0734
Application No. 08/056,739
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Brophy in view of Citta and
Haas.
Claim 19 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Brophy in view of Citta, Haas and Hopkins.
Claim 20 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Brophy in view of Citta, Haas, Hopkins and
Cotie.
Reference is made to the briefs and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 5 through 8, 10, 17
through 22, 26 and 30 through 36 is reversed.
All of the claims on appeal require that each data
terminal maintain or keep a count of unsuccessful attempts to
transmit a data message, and to transmit that count with the
data message to a terminal mapping means which uses that
unsuccessful count to change the number of data terminals in a
terminal group.
The polling station 101 in Brophy (Figure 1) "determines
the quantity of message traffic by measuring the duration of
time required to complete a polling sequence and, utilizing
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