Appeal No. 2000-2282
Application 08/713,046
station (ports 0,1,2,3, or 5 in Figure 1) on a network segment
(2). Since the claim language employs an “or”, step (b) is met
when “one” first transmission of the packet to a network segment
in order to deliver the packet to the packet destination is made.
A typical Bosack gateway circuit (76), shown in Bosack’s Figure
3, makes at least a first transmission of the packet in order to
deliver the packet to its destination station (for example 110).
We find that Bosack teaches the limitation of “conducting one or
more first transmissions of the packet to one or more of the
network segments in order to deliver the packet to the packet
destination.”
Step (c) of Claim 25 recites:
conducting a second transmission of the packet to a network
segment comprising the network monitor, wherein said second
transmission is separate from said one or more first
transmissions.
Step (c) requires conducting a separate transmission of the
packet to a network segment (2) comprising the network monitor
(9). Bosack’s specification discloses on column 8, lines 46-53,
in reference to Bosack’s Figure 4, that Step E computes the path
of the packet and if more than one path is acceptable, multiple
transmissions are made using several such paths in a weighted
form of a round robin alternation. A first of such multiple
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