Appeal No. 2006-1785 Page 22
Application No. 10/768,827
We disagree. We note that McLain explicitly discloses searching a data
source (i.e., command response table), matching, and retrieving a response
associated with the request, as claimed. See col. 10, lines 6-14:
Command response manager 216 uses a message pointer to determine which
entry will control response generation. The message pointer can be part of a
command control vector. On 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 [emphasis added].
Accordingly, we will sustain the examiner’s rejection of claims 4, 17
and 29 as being unpatentable over Ryzl in view of McLain.
As per dependent claim 5
Appellants argue that Ryzl and McLain, taken alone or in combination,
do not teach nor suggest “'wherein said emulating system comprises an
emulator adapted to receive said request from said application, obtain said
response associated with said request from said data source, and respond to
said application as described by said response associated with said request,”
as recited in claim 5 [brief, page 38].
We disagree. We note that Ryzl explicitly discloses an emulator at
page 3, ¶0020. McLain explicitly discloses emulating a telecommunications
network by simultaneously emulating multiple independent devices in the
telecommunications network at col. 3, lines 9-13. McLain further teaches
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