Appeal 2007-1061
Application 09/967,601
Appellant has invented a software thread function for a port that
establishes a virtual port that permits simultaneous sending and receiving of
data between two devices on both ends of the port (Specification 7 to 10).
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and it reads as
follows:
1. A computer network comprising:
a plurality of network devices; and
a network coupled to the plurality of network devices, wherein the
network comprises a machine readable tangible medium storing code, the
code adapted to provide a virtual port comprising a send thread to send
outgoing data and a receive thread to receive incoming data, wherein the
send thread is adapted to send the outgoing data concurrent with the receive
thread receiving the incoming data.
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
Hipp US 6,859,835 Feb. 22, 2005
(filed Oct. 5, 1999)
The Examiner rejected claims 1 to 25 and 27 to 30 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) based upon the teachings of Hipp.
Appellant contends that Hipp does not teach simultaneously sending
and receiving data via a single virtual port that uses send and receive threads
(Br. 9 to 12; Reply Br. 3).
We affirm-in-part.
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