Appeal No. 2002-2316
Application No. 09/408,443
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to a method and system for processing
communications between a device on a network and computers local to, and remote
from, the network device. The communications include information obtained from
sensors of the network device. Claim 16 is reproduced below.
16. A method of processing messages, comprising the steps of:
transmitting a message from a network device to a first computer which is
remote from said network device, said message including information obtained
from sensors of the network device;
receiving the message by the first computer;
determining, by the first computer, if a communication containing at least
part of the message including at least some of the information obtained from
sensors is to be transmitted from the first computer to a second computer which
is local to said device;
transmitting the communication from the first computer to the second
computer in response to the determination made by the first computer; and
receiving said communication by the second computer.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Tarr et al. (Tarr) 5,184,179 Feb. 2, 1993
Aikens et al. (Aikens) 5,414,494 May 9, 1995
Frantz 6,003,070 Dec. 14, 1999
(filed Feb. 25, 1997)
Claims 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Aikens and Tarr.
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