Appeal No. 95-3351
Application No. 07/735,356
312B. Input/output boards 312A and 312B are described as
“local” input/output devices. Column 5, lines 10-18. Input
station 304 appears to be related to keypad 230 shown in
Figure 3.
The examiner (Examiner’s Answer at 4, right hand column,
lines 16-19) relies on the following passage from Filion’s
Background of the Invention section to demonstrate that
external devices are in different or remote locations:
It would be desirable for an operator, especially
one tending to a plurality of machines, to be able
to easily observe the percentage completion or time
required for completion of a job for any one of the
machines regardless of the location of the operator
in the reproduction center, and be able to restart
the machine as soon as possible to begin another job
run.
Column 1, line 64 through column 2, line 2. Thus, Filion is
concerned with the need for an operator to observe the display
of each photocopy machine in a reproduction center. As shown
in Figure 5, Filion addresses that need by providing a
prominent bar graph on each machine’s individual display that
is observable from a long distance. Column 2, lines 30-49;
column 6, lines 57-59; and column 7, lines 66-68.
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