Appeal No. 2003-0422
Application No. 08/818,355 Page 5
1468, 1472, 223 USPQ 785, 788 (Fed. Cir. 1984); and In re
Rinehart, 531 F.2d 1048, 1052, 189 USPQ 143, 147 (CCPA 1976).
The examiner's position (answer, page 3) is that Ravindran's
client-server framework is a publish-subscribe communications
system comprising a plurality of channels for transmitting data
furnished by publishers of data to subscribers of data. The
examiner adds (id.) that “[r]avindran is silent on 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. ” To overcome the deficiencies
of Ravindran, the examiner turns to Aldred for a teaching of a
communication system providing a plurality of channels, with each
channel having a sending port and a receiving port. According to
the examiner (id.) it would have been obvious to incorporate the
channel with a transmitting port and a receiving port as taught
by Aldred into Ravindran's system, in order to improve the
capability of each channel on the client-server system. With
respect to independent claims 5 and 12, the examiner states that
these claims have similar limitations as claim 1, and are
rejected for the same reasons as claim 1.
Appellants assert (brief, page 5) that the references fail
to disclose, inter alia, the claimed publish-subscribe system,
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