The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARC LAMBERTON,
ERIC LEVY-ABEGNOLI
and PASCAL THUBERT
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Appeal No. 2006-0252
Application No. 09/755,564
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, JERRY SMITH, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5 and 7-14, which constitute
all the claims pending in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method for defeating a
SYN flooding attack in a server unit of an Internet Protocol
network. A SYN flooding attack is a type of denial of service
attack which attempts to overwhelm a server with a vast number of
spurious communications.
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