Appeal No. 2001-2001
Application 08/870,600
bandwidth allocation has been secured through the communication
from the beginning endpoint to the endpoint according to this
signaling network 4.
Our study of the prior decision in light of the Request
for Rehearing has lead us to note here what appears to be a
typographical error in the text at column 4 of Shimizu. More
specifically, we reproduced column 4, lines 7-11 at the bottom
of our prior decision page 5, which we again do here:
After the registration of the required
bandwidth has been successfully completed,
as shown in FIG. 5B, the communication is
carried out between the local switch 11 and
the local switch 32 through the cross connect
network in which VPI is defined in advance.
Considering the context of the disclosure, principally the
discussion at columns 3 and 4 as to the embodiment in Figures 1-5
of Shimizu, it appears that the reference in this just quoted
portion of Shimizu at column 4 should refer to Fig. 5A rather
than 5B. It is Figure 5A that allocates, reserves, acknowledges
and thus registers the bandwidth from LS11 to LS32, where a reply
or acknowledgment signal is sent indicating the registration of
the bandwidth back to the LS11, the originating endpoint. The
caption of Figure 5A indicates that the showing relates to the
bandwidth allocation sequence and the ultimate result at the
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