Appeal No. 1997-0809
Application 08/033,599
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the Examiner's refusal to allow of claims 1, 3-9, 12, and
13. The rejection of claims 10 and 11 has been withdrawn
(Examiner's Answer, page 2) and presumably these claims
stand objected to.
We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to the management
of packet transmission networks.
Claim 9 is reproduced below.
9. A network management system for a packet
communications network having a plurality of packet
switching nodes connected by a plurality of data links
represented by virtual circuit segments comprising
means for generating management information in
frames suitable for transmission on the packet
communications network,
said frames comprising major vectors associated
with particular types of management information and
including a plurality of subvectors containing specific
information about the status and configuration of
virtual circuit segments, and
means responsive to said management information
for managing said packet communications network.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art patents:
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