Appeal No. 96-0982
Application 08/163,812
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claim 8, which constitutes
the only claim remaining in the application. An amendment
after final rejection was filed on February 6, 1995 but was
denied entry by the examiner [Paper #6].
The disclosed invention pertains to an improved
control system for a postage meter. Specifically, the
invention is directed to the manner in which memory enable
signals are applied to memories having different access times.
The single claim on appeal is reproduced as follows:
8. An improved electronic postage meter control
system having a printing means including means for printing
mixed graphic and alphanumeric information in response to said
control circuit, said control circuit including a programmable
microprocessor in bus communication with said printing means
for controlling said printing means and with a plurality of
memory units for accounting for postage printed by said
printing means, said memory units including at least a first
memory unit having a write access time shorter than the write
access time of a second one of said memory unit, a program
memory means in bus communication with said programmable
microprocessor having an operating program stored therein,
said programmable microprocessor being able to access said
operating program, an integrated circuit in bus communication
with said programmable microprocessor, said program memory,
and said first and second units, wherein said improvement
comprises:
said integrated circuit having an address decoding
module means for generating one of a plurality control signals
in a unique combination in response to a respective address
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