Appeal No. 1999-2317 Page 4
Application No. 08/634,543
The prior art applied by the examiner in rejecting the
claims follows:
Wheeler, Jr. (“Wheeler”) 5,583,920 Dec.
10, 1996
(filed Sep. 12, 1994)
Gordon 5,608,786 Mar. 4,
1997.
(filed Feb. 13, 1995)
Claims 1-22 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious
over Wheeler in view of Gordon. Rather than reiterate the
arguments of the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the
reader to the briefs and answer for the respective details
thereof.
OPINION
After considering the record, we are persuaded that the
examiner erred in rejecting claims 1-22. Accordingly, we
reverse. We begin by summarizing the examiner's rejection.
Admitting that Wheeler’s advanced intelligent network
(“AIN”) does not connect its central office switching systems
(“CO SSPs”) or any other components to the Internet, (Final
Rejection at 3), the examiner asserts, "it would have been
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