Appeal No. 97-2763
Application No. 08/580,790
OPINION
All of the obviousness rejections of claims 1 through 8
are reversed.
The examiner is of the opinion that the forming steps,
the transmitting steps, and the evaluating steps of claims 1
through 8 are taught by each of the applied references
(Answer, pages 4, 6 and 8). The examiner acknowledges
(Answer, pages 4, 6 and 8) that neither of the references
teaches that “the transition monitoring cells are replaced
with cells whose regular error detecting code word covers an
entire cell block.” The examiner concludes (Answer, pages 4
through 6, 8 and 9) that “it is well known in the art to use a
redundancy character across a block of information (a CRC
redundancy check for example)," and that it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to modify each of
the applied references to include “a block check word because
one of ordinary skill in the art would want to make certain
that when a block of information is transmitted errors are not
generated.”
Izawa discloses the use of either asynchronous
transmission mode (ATM) cells (Figure 2) or synchronous
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