The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 18 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte DEBENDRA DAS SHARMA Appeal No. 2002-1498 Application No. 09/042,202 HEARD: MARCH 13, 2003 Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-32. The invention is directed to a system for managing communications between nodes utilizing credit flow control. A “credit flow control” is used in order to avoid losing data when a queue associated with a destination node is completely full. -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007