Appeal No. 1996-4070
Application No. 08/367,930
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 and 3-10, all of the claims pending in the present
application. Claim 2 has been canceled.
The claimed invention relates to a method and apparatus
for extracting message blocks from maintenance messages used
in a communications network. More particularly, Appellants
indicate at pages 3-5 of the specification that, upon
detection of a message identification within a maintenance
message, appropriate masks are retrieved from memory. Message
blocks are extracted from the maintenance message using the
masks and the extracted message blocks are stored and given an
identification ID as illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A method of processing a maintenance message applied
from a telecommunications network to an integrated network
maintenance system, the maintenance message including an
identification code and a plurality of message blocks, the
maintenance message indicating status information of the
telecommunications network, the method comprising the steps
of:
(a) preparing a plurality of message block extracting
masks by an operator input through a console, wherein each of
the message block extracting masks defines at least one
position of a message block to be extracted from the
maintenance message;
2
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