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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 BRUCE LEROY BEUKEMA,
RONALD EDWARD FUHS, DANNY MARVIN NEAL,
RENATO JOHN RECIO, STEVEN L. ROGERS,
STEVEN MARK THURBER, and BRUCE MARSHALL WALK
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Appeal No. 2006-2275
Application No. 09/731,998
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, BARRY, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-69.
The invention is directed to transferring foreign protocols across a system area
network.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for processing foreign protocol requests across a system area network,
the method comprising:
receiving a request from a device utilizing a protocol which is foreign to a
protocol utilized by the system area network;
encapsulating the request in a data packet formatted for the protocol utilized by
the system area network; and
sending the data packet to a requested node via the system area network fabric.
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