Appeal No. 2006-1084
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,334
1 14. ISO Layer 6, the Presentation Layer 60, deals with the
2 presentation of data to an application which resides at ISP Layer 7. (‘786
3 Patent, col. 7, lines 51-53.)
4 15. ISO Layer 7, the Application Layer 62, provides access to the
5 internet for a user. (‘786 Patent, col. 7, line 55.)
6 16. Claims 1, 11, and 15 are the only independent claims on
7 appeal.
8 17. Claims 1, 11 and 15 read as follows:
9 1. A method of providing access control to
10 resources of a network comprising steps of:
11
12 monitoring network traffic of data packets in
13 which each said data packet includes identifications of
14 source and destination nodes and includes contextual
15 information, including receiving said data packets
16 transmitted to and from nodes of said network such that
17 receptions of said data packets are non-intrusive with
18 respect to traffic flow of said network;
19
20 with respect to individual node-to-node
21 transmissions within said network, assembling pluralities
22 of said received data packets specific to said individual
23 node-to-node transmissions, thereby forming an
24 assembled multi-packet communication for each of said
25 node-to-node transmission, wherein said node-to-node
26 transmissions are each in a form of an original composite
27 signal separated into a plurality of said data packets for
28 full and final reassembly at a destination node identified
29 in said data packets of said node-to-node transmission;
30
31 based upon said assembled multi-packet
32 communications, identifying source nodes and
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