Appeal No. 2000-2193
Application No. 08/877,465
The disclosed invention relates to a method and system for
tagging an encapsulated packet that is sent from one end station
to another end station in a computer network. In the
encapsulated packet, the tag is provided between two media
headers.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for achieving effective communication
across a media of data transmission in a computer network,
the computer network including a plurality of end stations,
a portion of the plurality end stations lacking operating
system support for the media, the method comprising:
providing an encapsulated packet from one end
station of the portion of the plurality of end stations;
utilizing a tag as an indicator of encapsulation
within the encapsulated packet; and
providing the tag between a media header and a
known media header in the encapsulated packet.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Edsall et al. (Edsall) 5,742,604 Apr. 21, 1998
(filed Mar. 28, 1996)
Hyden et al. (Hyden) 5,774,461 Jun. 30, 1998
(filed Sep. 27, 1995)
Claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 11 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by Edsall.
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