Appeal No. 1999-1697
Application No. 08/550,270 Page 11
coupled to terminal (computer) 100 through transmit and receive
lines 150 and 151. Blackwell additionally discloses (col. 2,
lines 54-58) that it is known to build separate digital and
analog devices onto cards.
We find that Hartley is directed to connection of a data
processing system, such as a personal computer, to a
communications network (col. 1, lines 8-10). Hartley discloses
(col. 4, lines 24-27) that modem 3 is connected to public
telephone network 2 by coupler 4, and that modem 3 could either
be constructed as a plug-in printed circuit card or could be
integrated into the main planar board of the personal computer.
Hartley additionally discloses (col. 9, lines 40-43) that
although the invention is described with respect to a telephone
network, that the invention is also applicable to digital
networks.
From the disclosure of Hartley, we agree with appellants
that element 3 of Hartley refers to the modem board, but find
that because the modem can be constructed as a plug-in circuit
card, that the modem is constructed as a carrier board having a
connector. In addition, appellants' argument (brief, page 7)
that neither Hartley nor Blackwell recognizes or put forth a
solution to the mobility problem, does not directly address the
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