Appeal No. 2006-1785 Page 14
Application No. 10/768,827
Therefore, we find that McLain teaches every limitation of claim 26,
arranged as claimed, as shown infra:
26. A method of emulating a target See col. 3, lines 10 and 11: “emulating a
computing system, comprising: telecommunications network.”
receiving a request; See col. 9, lines 64-67: “A command field
1414 identifies a particular command that
can be received by TND emulator 126.”
obtaining a response associated with said See col. 9, lines 64-67: “A response field
request from a data source, said data source1416 provides an appropriate response for
containing a plurality of requests acceptablethe command identified in field 1414.”
to said target computing system and a See also plural “command fields 1414” and
plurality of responses, “requests,” col. 10, lines 11 and 21.
The claimed “data source” is taught by the
command response table shown in fig. 14,
and described in columns 9 –11, particularly
at col. 9, lines 43-67.
each acceptable request being associated See col. 10, lines 6-14: “Command response
with a response that describes the expectedmanager 216 uses a message pointer to
behavior of said target computing system determine which entry will control response
upon receiving said acceptable request; andgeneration. The message pointer can be part
responding as described by said response of a command control vector. On
associated with said request. initialization, the message pointer is
positioned at the first entry in a command
response table. When a command is
received from network interface 212, a
command column containing command fields
1414 is searched for a match. If the
command is found in the command column,
command response manager 216 takes
action as indicated by an associated
response field 1416.”
responding as described by said response See col. 10, lines 15-19: “Actions can
associated with said request. include a first level of response for
unintelligently responding to certain inputs,
a second level of response for intelligently
responding to certain inputs using simple
commands and a third level of response for
providing detailed logical responses by
invoking a script.”
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