Appeal No. 2004-1668
Application No. 09/466,529
13. A system for cataloging and detecting network
faults, comprising
a communication interface for receiving a fault
message from a network;
a parser connected to the communication interface
and parsing the fault message for an event type, the
event type defines a type of error that occurred; and
an associative database connected to the parser
storing a tally for the fault message, the associative
database having a hashing calculator.
THE REFERENCES
Daniel et al. (Daniel) 4,965,772 Oct. 23, 1990
Pickett et al. (Pickett) 5,062,147 Oct. 29, 1991
Iddon et al. (Iddon) 5,634,009 May 27, 1997
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as follows:
claims 1-17, 23 and 24 over Pickett in view of Daniel and Iddon,
and claims 18-22 over Pickett in view of Iddon.
OPINION
We reverse the aforementioned rejections. We need to
address only the independent claims, i.e., claims 1, 13, 18, 23
and 24.
Pickett discloses a computer monitoring system for sensing
and categorizing faults (col. 1, lines 10-12). A rules file
contains key specifications used to extract or parse data from a
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