Appeal No. 95-3125
Application 08/071,920
all the claims in the application. Amendments after final
rejection were filed on July 7, 1994 and August 2, 1994. Both
of these amendments were entered by the examiner. These
amendments resulted in the withdrawal of rejections made under
35 U.S.C.
§ 112 in the final rejection [advisory action, Paper #8].
The disclosed invention pertains to a control system
having a plurality of distributed input/output interface
modules. Specifically, information is provided to a plurality
of input/output devices by way of a host interface connected
to a plurality of secondary interfaces. The host interface
and each secondary interface has a hardware controlled
multinode interface (HCMI). An address counter in each
secondary HCMI directly controls activation of that HCMI.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. In a control system having a plurality of distributed
input/output interface modules, comprising
a central processing unit (CPU) for controlling
information to and from a plurality of input/output devices,
a host interface having a host hardware controlled
multinode interface (HCMI);
2
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