Ex Parte Lewis et al - Page 5

                 Appeal 2006-2621                                                                                   
                 Application 09/993,320                                                                             
                 communication device model and downloads it to the communication                                   
                 device.  (Specification 3).  According to Appellants (Specification 9), the                        
                 firmware selection and downloading by a management device eliminates the                           
                 “time consuming and error prone matching of the appropriate firmware to                            
                 the communications device by an administrator.”                                                    
                       Ha discloses a method and apparatus for upgrading the basic input-                           
                 output system (BIOS) software of a personal computer by downloading the                            
                 appropriate upgrade BIOS software from a host computer.  After a                                   
                 determination is made that a request for an upgrade has been made by a                             
                 personal computer, the personal computer model ID is sent to the host                              
                 computer (col. 4, ll. 45-53).  The appropriate software for the particular                         
                 personal computer model is read from the storage device of the host                                
                 computer and transferred to the requesting personal computer (col. 4, ll. 54-                      
                 61).                                                                                               
                    Itoh discloses (col. 18, ll. 36-42) the upgrading of BIOS software in                           
                 which software version information is included in the model identification.                        
                    Ishibashi discloses (col. 6, ll. 17-35) the storage of device ID information                    
                 on non-volatile machine usable storage media in the form of a BIOS-ROM.                            
                    Treu discloses (col. 6, ll. 51-55) a communication device in the form of a                      
                 personal computer which includes ID information which uniquely identifies                          
                 the communication device.                                                                          
                    Comer discloses (page 156) the advantages to the user of using                                  
                 Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology in communication                              
                 devices permitting a user to send and receive digital information at high                          
                 speed.                                                                                             



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