Appeal No. 98-3047
Application No. 08/576,539
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a network transmission system having an evaluation unit for storing
and updating information regarding network status. Claim 7 is reproduced below.
7. A transmission system comprising a plurality of network nodes for receiving and
transmitting packets which contain connection-related status information signals about
the transmission system in the form of OAM cells, characterized in that a network node
comprises at least one evaluation unit which:
stores connection-related status information signals extracted from a packet in a
table, and
irrespective of an order of received packets, periodically performs a
postprocessing function which determines current, connection-related statuses in a
given order for each connection based upon any statuses previously stored in the table
and determined thus far, as well as on the received, connection-related status
information signals.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Miyagi et al. (Miyagi) 5,461,607 Oct. 24, 1995
(filed May 31, 1994)
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 10), the Supplemental Final Rejection (Paper No.
12), and the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 17) for a statement of the examiner's position. We refer
to the Brief (Paper No. 16) for appellants’ position.
Claims 1-6 have been canceled.
Claims 7-13 were objected to in the Final Rejection and the Supplemental Final Rejection.
However, the examiner has withdrawn the objection to the claims. (Answer, page 2.)
- 2 -
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007