Appeal No. 1996-3273
Application 08/127,932
the invention transfers data to a transmission queue within
the sending station based on both the availability of the
transmission queue and on multimedia pacing requests.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method in a distributed data processing system for
the interchange of multimedia data and non-multimedia data
between a plurality of receiving stations and a sending
station, wherein said sending station contains a transmission
queue, said method comprising the steps of:
transmitting a multimedia pacing request from one of said
plurality of receiving stations to said sending station at
selected time intervals,
periodically determining an availability of said
transmission queue within said sending station, and
selectively transferring said multimedia data and said
non-multimedia data to said transmission queue in a selected
order in response to both said determined availability of said
transmission queue and said multimedia pacing requests,
wherein said method increases the overall information flow
through said transmission queue.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Blasbalg 4,771,391 Sep. 13, 1988
The admitted prior art set forth in appellants’ specification.
Claims 1-6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
being anticipated by the disclosure of Blasbalg. Claims 1-6
also stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
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