Appeal 2007-0708
Application 09/881,367
2. As depicted in Figure 2, the disclosed system2 (100) includes an
assembly (102), a first network (104), a second network (106), and one or
more external circuits (108). (Id.)
3. Upon receiving an incoming packet, the first network (104) dispatches
a receive signal3 (RX1) via its interface (110) to a network interface (122),
which in turn forwards the signal to a processing circuit (128) to process the
parameters extracted4 from the packet within the receive signal. (Id 7.)
4. After processing the extracted parameters of the packet, the
processing circuit (128) frames outgoing parameters to generate a transmit
signal TX2 (112) containing an outgoing packet, which it presents to the
second network (104) via a network interface (124). (Id 9.)
The Prior Art Relied upon
5. Ogawa teaches a receiving device (e.g., bridge, router, gateway,
multi-layer switch) that receives an incoming network frame along with its
synchronizing signals, and simultaneously processes the parameters of the
network frame to determine which protocol from a hierarchy of protocols is
2 Appellant’s Specification indicates that the preferred embodiment of the
invention can be implemented as a router, a gateway, a network bridge, a
network switch, a concentrator or a multiplexer or any other assembly that
interfaces among two or more networks. (Specification 5.)
3 The signal RX1/TX1 may be implemented as one or more frames received/
transmitted from the first network. (Id 7.)
4 A user generally presents a signal download to direct processing of the
extracted parameters, which may include pointers, offset values and length
values. (Id 8.)
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