Appeal No. 1996-3083
Application 08/139,692
each module of said first type being arranged, on
detecting its respectively associated information in said
first field, to output a message which includes at least a
portion of such original information message to an input of
one of said modules of the second type;
at least one of said modules of said second type being
arranged, in the absence of detecting its respectively
associated predefined information in said second field, to
output the message which it receives at its input to an input
of another one of said modules of said second type;
each module of said second type being arranged, on
detecting its respectively associated predefined information
in said second field, to produce at an output a message which
includes an indication that such information has been detected
successfully; and
said program modules including at least one program
module which, on receiving a message at an input produces at
an output a message which includes an information stream
according to said second protocol.
The following reference is relied upon by the examiner:
Brown et al. (Brown) 5,060,140 Oct. 22,
1991
Claims 9 through 15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. §
102(b) as being clearly anticipated by Brown and, separately,
under
35 U.S.C. § 103, as being obvious over Brown alone.
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