Appeal No. 2006-1734
Application 09/855,624
Independent method claim 10 is reproduced below:
10. A method for providing update configuration data for a client
personal computer system in a data network including a server, having
configuration data including an internet protocol destination address, and
at least one client personal computer system having a storage device for
storing configuration data and a micro controller for receiving network
signal packets from the server and for configuring the client personal
computer system with updated configuration data, including the internet
protocol destination address of the server, comprising the steps of:
receiving a network signal packet sent from the server in the micro
controller in the at least one client personal computer system;
determining that the network signal packet includes the server’s
internet protocol destination address:
determining that the network signal packet is a match for the any
one of the at least one client personal computer system; and
responding to the receiving, determining inclusion of the server’s
address and determining that the packet is a match by updating the storage
device of the any one of the at lest one client personal computer system
with the included internet protocol destination address of the server
included in the packet.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Crowle 5,857,072 Jan. 5, 1999
(Filed Apr. 30, 1996)
Aziz et al. (Aziz) 6,119,234 Sep. 12, 2000
(Filed Jun. 27, 1997)
Microsoft Computer Dictionary, 5th Edition, Redmond,
Washington, Microsoft Press, 2002, pp 513.
Feit Sidnie, TCP/IP, McGraw Hill, 1997, Chapter 12, pp 269-290.
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