Appeal No. 2004-1668
Application No. 09/466,529
computer generated message to create a key used to address a
message action file which tells the computer monitoring system
how to respond to the message (col. 8, lines 12-15). The
failures indicated by the messages are tallied (col. 8, lines
52-53).
Daniel discloses code points which are strings of bits
generated in response to an event in a device attached to a
network and are used to index predefined tables that contain
relatively short units of text messages to be used in building an
operator’s information display (col. 2, lines 3-7).
The examiner argues that “Pickett and Daniel et al did not
further suggest calculating a hash of the key to form an
association. However, Iddon et al suggest such (col. 3, line 66
- col. 4, line 11; col. 7, line 9 - col. 8, line 4)” (answer,
pages 4, 6 and 7).
Iddon discloses “a system employing a sufficient number of
network nodes connected throughout a computer network adapted to
collect network data, wherein each such node has a network
interface to translate the electronic signals on the network into
a digital form, a memory for storing the digital form, and a CPU
for processing the digital form in accordance with software
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