Appeal No. 1997-1194 Application No. 08/084,668 this deficiency, the Examiner turns to Hokari which is directed to the selection of a least cost route for data transfer in a ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) network using stored least cost routing table information. In the Examiner’s line of reasoning (Answer, page 3, which references a previous Office action mailed April 12, 1995, paper no. 5), the skilled artisan would have found it obvious to incorporate a least cost router in the system of Shinohara in order to provide rapid and economic route selection for the transfer of data packets in view of the teachings of Hokari. 7Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007