The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte LINHAI HE __________ Appeal No. 2002-0874 Application 09/124,278 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 32, all the claims pending in the instance application. Invention The invention relates to a push-out technique for shared memory buffer management in network nodes. See page 1 of Appellant’s specification. A weighted queue length is maintained 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007