The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte ALAN S. CHAPMAN and HSIANG T. KUNG ____________ Appeal No. 2004-1703 Application No. 09/333,269 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before KRASS, OWENS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1-24, which are all of the claims in the application. THE INVENTION The appellants claim a node and method for controlling congestion in a data network. Claim 1, which claims the node, is illustrative:Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007