Appeal No. 2005-0004
Application No. 09/135,230
information is directed to how to make the network connection and the address
information identifies which server to make the network connection with. Claim 1 also
includes the limitation that a configuration table is “indexed by at a least part of the
particular network address.” The meaning of the term “index” is not discussed by
appellants in their arguments nor is it defined in appellants’ specification. We find that
the dictionary definition of “a listing of key words and associated data that point to the
location of more comprehensive information” to be consistent with the examples given
of an indexed table in appellants’ specification.2 Thus, we find that the scope of claim 1
includes a table of information related to how to make the network connection, indexed
by information which identifies which server to make the network connection with.
We find that Gauvin teaches a database is used to store the resources
necessary to maintain network connection (see column 5, lines 49-60). The database
contains information describing how the mobile computer should access the selected
server. Gauvin states “[t]he information can include the type of network to be used to
access the selected server, e.g. LAN or WAN.” (see column 6 line 67 to column 7, line
3). We consider selection of the server to be the information of whom to contact, the
address data, and the data identifying the network to be used, either LAN or WAN, to be
the how to make the connection, the connection information. Thus, we find that the
database of Gavin does store connection information for each address, the selected
server.
2 Definition taken from Computer Dictionary, The Comprehensive Standard For Business,
School, Library and Home, Microsoft Press, 1991.
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