Appeal No. 1997-0809
Application 08/033,599
Appellants have not shown any error in the Examiner's
finding of anticipation. The anticipation rejection of
claim 12 is sustained.
Claim 13
Appellants argue that Jolissaint does not disclose the
claimed "means for generating a network management major
vector of status and configuration data specifying the
configuration and status of each virtual circuit segment
terminating at said each node" or the claimed "means,
responsive to inconsistencies originated at said adjacent
ones of said nodes, for reporting said inconsistencies to
said centrally located means for collecting data."
Appellants do not explain why Jolissaint does not meet these
limitations.
The Examiner responds that Jolissaint teaches that each
node generates reports (col. 5, line 6 to col. 6, line 16)
and that the node also reports errors (col. 7, lines 31-36).
Jolissaint discloses that connectivity reports are sent
via packets to the network manager 30. Such connectivity
reports can broadly be considered to specify the
configuration and the initialization status of the logical
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