Appeal No. 2003-0422
Application No. 08/818,355 Page 2
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced
as follows:
1. A publish-subscribe communications system comprising:
a plurality of channels for transmitting data furnished by
publishers of data to subscribers to data,
each channel including means for accepting data published to
the channel and furnishing the data accepted to subscribers to
the channel,
a channel including means for accepting data for
transmission by the channel from another channel.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Aldred et al. 5,649,105 Jul. 15, 1997
(Aldred) (102(e) date is June 27, 1994)
Ravindran, K., “Object-Oriented Communication Structures for
Multimedia Data Transport”, vol. 14, no. 7, Sep. 1996, pg. 1360-
1375
Claims 1-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Ravindran in view of Aldred.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the
examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we
make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 23, mailed
August 26, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 21, filed
March 25, 2002) and reply brief (Paper No. 25, filed October 28,
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