Appeal No. 2002-1513
Application No. 08/829,587
conventions used to communicate data at the low data rate, which
prevents and eliminates congestion, and the non-reliable network
protocol is the set of conventions used to communicate data at
the high data rate, which causes congestion. We note that at
column 1, lines 27-31, the reference teaches that congestion
causes voice quality degradation due to the discarding of data
packets and increased packet delay time.
Claims 9, 13, 14, 17 and 18
After consideration of the positions and arguments presented
by appellant with respect to the group of claims consisting of
claims 9, 13, 14, 17 and 18, we have concluded that the rejection
should be sustained. We agree in general with the comments made
by the examiner. Appellant’s argument that Hluchyj fails to
provide any teachings or suggestions relevant to the claim
limitations of independent claims 9 and 18 requiring “routing
data through a reliable network protocol when directed by a
quality of service agent and otherwise routing the data through a
non-reliable network protocol” has been answered, above, with
respect to our decision to sustain the rejection of claims 1 and
19. The argument regarding claims 9 and 18 that Hluchyj fails to
provide any teachings or suggestions relevant to the storage of a
specified or predefined number of data packets during
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