Appeal No. 2006-0384 Παγε 2
Application No. 09/041,979
individual media stream bandwidth control (specification, page
1). As shown in figure 1, sub-net bandwidth manager (SBM) 104
manages bandwidth of network 100, including admission by traffic
class and reservation bandwidth for the admitted traffic class
(specification, page 5).
Claim 1 is representative of the invention, and is reproduced as
follows:
1. A storage medium having stored therein a plurality of
programming instructions executable by a processor, wherein
when executed, the programming instructions implement a
multi-media call application that effectuates quality of
service (QOS) guarantee for a packet based multi-media call
(CALL) through call associated individual media stream
bandwith control.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Drake, Jr., et al. (Drake) 5,461,611 Oct. 24, 1995
O’Neil et al. (O’Neil) 5,963,547 Oct. 5, 1999
Claims 1-6, 10-12 and 14-33 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Drake.
Claims 7-9 and 13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Drake in view of O’Neil.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
rejections, we make reference to the answer (mailed February 25,
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