Appeal No. 1997-0629
Application No. 08/085,505
recites:
enabling an application program to dynamically
cause inclusion of a selected one of a plurality
of different transport service providers in the
set of transport service providers running on
the computer.
Appellant contends that Britton, contrary to the present
invention, does not provide for the inclusion of transport
service providers which are not already running on the
computer (Reply Brief, page 3). In Appellant’s analysis, the
MPTN manager utilized by Britton’s system has made available
any transport service provider needed by any running
application at the access node and such provider is already up
and running (Brief, page 7).
After careful review of Appellant’s arguments, however,
it is initially our view that such arguments are not
commensurate with the scope of independent claim 2. It is
axiomatic that, in proceedings before the PTO, claims in an
application are to be given their broadest reasonable
interpretation consistent with the specification, and that
claim language should be read in light of the specification as
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