Appeal No. 1997-0809
Application 08/033,599
The Examiner responds that Jolissaint generates and
transmits reports of the status of logical links, which are
considered to be the same as virtual circuits (SEA2). In
connection with the rejection of claim 5, the Examiner
admits that Jolissaint does not teach that the network
manager indicates the status of the links, but concludes
that the status is determined by the network manager in
response to an error condition (EA7).
Claim 1 requires storing the "current status of the
virtual circuit segments." Jolissaint determines the status
of a direct link each time a direct link is initialized, but
thereafter the change in status must be determined from
analysis of the error reports. We agree with Appellants
that Jolissaint does not report the current status of the
links and we disagree with the Examiner's reasoning that the
fact that the network manager can determine the status of a
link in response to an error report meets the requirement
for indicating the current status of virtual circuit
segments. Dev is relied on for teaching of displaying
network information and does not cure this deficiency.
Thus, we conclude that the Examiner has failed to establish
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