Appeal 2007-1410
Application 09/811,038
ISSUE
The principal issue in the appeal before us is whether the Examiner
erred in holding that Kalmanek teaches the claim limitations of determining
whether or not a reservation request can be validated based on user
information within the source workstation, and in response to that
determination, determining whether or not the capacity of the network is
sufficient to meet requirements of the reservation request.
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The Invention
1. Appellants invented a method and apparatus for reserving a
virtual connection between source and destination workstations (Br. 2:17-
18).
2. A reservation server first uses user information (user
permissions, etc.) to validate the virtual connection reservation request (Br.
2:22-23).
3. In response to the user information being validated
successfully, the reservation request is evaluated in terms of available
network capacity (Br. 2:23-24).
representative independent claim. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 590, 18
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991). See also 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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