Appeal No. 1999-2380
Application No. 08/575,743 Page 7
secured, unsecured source/destination or uncertain of the
association," and that (id.) "the prior art cited above teaches
the ability to at least recognize the association with a secured
or unsecured destination. The appellant's claims need to
specifically recite the requirement for determining whether all
three states can be detected in order for this argument to be
overcome."
Appellants assert (brief, page 9) that claim 1 requires
consideration of all three states in the processing of data
packets.
Claim 1 recites that:
determining within a first degree of certainty whether
a source address of one said executable packet is
associated with anyone of said plurality of secured
computers,
said source address is not associated with anyone
of said plurality of secured computers,
or association of said source address with anyone
of said plurality of secured computers is uncertain; and
We observe that claim 1 also contains similar language with
respect to a destination address. From the recited language, we
find that claim 1 requires determining whether a source address
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