Appeal No. 98-3047
Application No. 08/576,539
Miyagi Figure 4 - Detail
Miyagi’s Figure 8 discloses the logic for determining when VP Table-2 623 is to be updated.
Miyagi Figure 8
As revealed in Figure 8, the state changes from the AIS state to the normal state upon the
occurrence of either of two events: a user (non-AIS) cell is received; or an AIS cell is not received for
three seconds. The state transition decision unit notifies the host processor when a state changes to
“normal” or “AIS.” The only way the decision unit could determine if three seconds have passed since
an AIS cell reception is to periodically update timer 619 in VP Table-2. As shown in Figure 4, the
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