Ex Parte Tarquini et al - Page 2

                 Appeal 2007-0477                                                                                      
                 Application 10/003,510                                                                                

            1                                STATEMENT OF CASE                                                         
            2           Appellants appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a Final Rejection of                              
            3    claims 1 to 16.  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).                                         
            4           Appellants invented a method and computer readable medium for                                  
            5    integrating a decode engine with an intrusion detection system.                                       
            6    (Specification 1).                                                                                    
            7           Independent claims 1 and 10 under appeal reads as follows:                                     
            8                  1. A method of detecting network-intrusions at a first node of a                        
            9           network, comprising:                                                                           
           10                                                                                                          
           11           identifying a frame as an intrusion by an intrusion detection                                  
           12           application;                                                                                   
           13                                                                                                          
           14           archiving event-data associated with the frame; and                                            
           15                                                                                                          
           16           decoding the event-data by a decode engine, the decode engine                                  
           17           integrated within the intrusion detection application.                                         
           18                                                                                                          
           19           10. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of                                  
           20           instructions to be executed, the set of instructions, when executed by a                       
           21           processor, cause the processor to perform a computer method of:                                
           22                                                                                                          
           23           identifying, by an intrusion detection application, a frame of                                 
           24           data as intrusion- related; and                                                                
           25                                                                                                          
           26           decoding, by the intrusion detection application, the intrusion-                               
           27           related data.                                                                                  
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