Appeal No. 2002-1044
Application No. 09/017,096
that Des Jardins teaches that the buffer is not enabled to write and thus discard occurs
in the memory itself. See pages 5-7 of the brief and the reply brief.
We note that Appellants’ claim 10 recites:
comparator means cooperating with the counting means and the control
logic means such that, responsive to the programmable threshold value
for the degree of filling of the central cell memory being reached , and
evaluation of information determinable from the header of a received cell
relating to the packet of which the received cell is a part, each ATM cell of
the packet containing said received cell is discarded before arriving in the
central cell memory.
Similarly claim 20 recites:
said comparator means cooperating with the counting means and the
control logic means such that, responsive to a programmable threshold
value for the degree of filling of the central cell memory being reached,
and evaluation of information determinable from the header of a received
cell relating to the packet of which the received cell is a part, a
programmable number of links are defined on the basis of the sequence of
arrival of the ATM cells assigned to a relevant link, each ATM cell of the
packet belonging to the defined VC value being discarded before arriving
in the central cell memory.
We further note that claims 10 and 20 are the only independent claims before
us.
For this limitation, the Examiner relies on Des Jardins and points to column 2,
lines 54-60, see pages 4 and 7 of the Examiner’s answer.
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