Appeal No. 1996-4070
Application No. 08/367,930
(b) storing the plurality of message block extracting
masks in a first memory;
(c) receiving the maintenance message, storing the
maintenance message in a second memory and identifying the
maintenance message based on the identification code of the
received maintenance message;
(d) retrieving one of the message block extracting masks
from the first memory based on the identification code of the
received maintenance message, and storing the retrieved mask
in the second memory;
(e) extracting one of the message blocks from the
received maintenance message using the retrieved mask stored
in the second memory;
(f) affixing a block identification to the message block
extracted in step (e); and
(g) storing the message block with the block
identification in a third memory.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Anderson et al. (Anderson) 4,284,849 Aug. 18,
1981
Little 4,455,455 Jun. 19,
1984
Cronin et al (Cronin), "Network Control Center", IEEE
publication, 1981, pp. G7.3.1-G7.3.6.
Claims 1 and 3-5 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Anderson in view of Cronin.
Claims 6-10 stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
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