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`APPLICATION NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`I0/278,342
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`I0/23/2002
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`Timothy James Speight
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`MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP
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`MAIL DATE
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`09/ I 2/2007
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.‘
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`App|icant(s) Application No.
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`SPEIGHT, TIMOTHY JAMES
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`Status
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`r1)E Responsive to communication(s) filed on 02 August 2007.
`2a)I:] This action is FINAL.
`2b)E This action is non-final.
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`3)|:I Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
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`closed in accordance with the practice under Ex parte Quayle, 1935 C.D. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Disposition of Claims
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`4)E§I C|aim(s)1-_g‘_.3is/are pending in the application.
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`5)l:] Claim(s)
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`6)|Z Claim(s) 1-_§ is/are rejected.
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`is/are withdrawn from consideration.
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`7)D C|aim(s)___is/are objected to.
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`' 8)Ej Claim(s)
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`are subject to restriction and/or election requirement.
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`Application Papers
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`11)EI The oath or declaration is objected to by the Examiner. Note the attached Office Action or form PTO—152.
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`. Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
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`12)E| Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`b)E] Some * c)El None of:
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`Certified copies of the priority documents have been received in Application No. __
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`Copies of the certified copies of the priority documents have been received in this National Stage
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`2) E] Notice of Draflsperson’s Patent Drawing Review (PTO-948)
`3) IX] lnforrnation Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08)
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`Paper No(s)/Mail Date 8/2/07.
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`- DETAILED ACTION
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the
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`basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless -
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`(e) the invention was described in (1) an application for patent, published under section l22(b), by another filed
`in the United States before the invention by the applicant for patent or (2) a patent granted on an application for
`A patent by another filed in the United States before the invention by the applicant for patent, except that an
`international application filed under the treaty defined in section 351(a) shall have the effects for purposes of this
`subsection of an application filed in the United States only if the international application designated the United
`States and was published under Article 21(2) of such treaty in the English language.
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`2.
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`5 Claims 1-25 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as being anticipated by Veres et al. (U.S.
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`Patent No. 6614790 B 1).
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`- With respect to claim 1, 6, 8-9, 11, 16, 18-20, and 22-25, Veres teaches a method of
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`processing queued data packets in a packet dataxcommunicatiion system (e.g. the switch in Fig.
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`3), the method, comprising the step of: allocating a tier of service for substantially each of a
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`plurality of individual packet data queues (e.g. P to Pn and 'Pn+1 to Pm+l in Fig. 4 shows the
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`priority level buffer for each data); wherein the method is characterised by the steps of:
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`determining a total number of data packets that can use an available communication resource
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`(see col. 4,lines 55-60); allocating a proportion of said total number of data packets to a number
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`of the tiers of service to allow individual packet data queues on a number of tiers to share a
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`communication resource (see col. 6, lines 28-32); and providing said communication resource to
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`queued packet data users on a tier-by-tier basis, such that said communication resource is made
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`available to a substantial number of tiers (see col. 6, lines 41-44).
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`- With respect to claims 2, 4, and 12, Veres also teaches wherein said step of allocating a
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`proportion of a total number of data packets is further characterised by the step of: providing a
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`. commitment that a proportion of an entire communication system bandwidth will be allocated, to
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`users operating on a particular tier (e. g. the service guarantees for each flow as col. 6, lines 38- _
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`40).
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`- With respect to claims 3, and 133, Veres teaches the method further characterised by the
`step of: allocating different weights to each tier of service to provide a differential level of
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`service in the allocation of said communication resource between said tiers (e.g. different priority
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`levels as Fig. 4 shows).
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`- With respect to claims 5, 7, 15', and 17 Veres discloses the method further characterised
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`by the step of: providing a packet data user with an identification code to assist in the tier
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`allocation step, wherein, for example, the identification code provides an identifier for theluser
`and/or an indication of a number of data packets that the user wishes to transfer (col. 4, lines 16-
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`18).
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`- With respect to claim 10, Veres teaches the method further characterised by the step of:'
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`determining a tier of service for each user when a packet data session for each user commences,
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`(block 4 in Fig. 4).
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`- With respect to claim 14, Veres teaches wherein said means for allocating a proportion
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`of a total number of data pacl<ets allocates data packets using rate allocating‘ service disciplines
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`(e.g.,col. 1, lines 33-35).
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`- With respect to claim 21, Veres discloses wherein said communication unit operates as
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`a gateway to and/or from two packet data networks (e. g. the switch in Fig. 3).
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`The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's
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`disclosure.
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`Goldman et al. (U.S. Patent No. 7206282 Bl) discloses method and apparatus to balance
`flow loads in almlultipurpose.
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