Appeal No. 1996-4065
Application No. 08/234,115
keyboard is actuated;
in response to detection of actuation of a key
in said last step, buffering a data instruction preassigned to
the actuated key;
determining if the actuated key is a plural
function key; and
in response to determining that said activated
key is a plural function key, buffering successive data
instructions preassigned to said actuated plural function key
so that said at least two preset data instructions are read
from said buffer during the transmitting step.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Evans et al. 4,825,200 Apr. 25, 1989
Smith 4,857,898 Aug. 15, 1989
Enomoto et al. 5,128,667 Jul. 7,
1992
Lee et al. 5,212,487 May 18, 1993
(filed Sep. 6, 1991)
Lee et al. 2 DE 4128907 A1 Nov. 5, 1992
2Since the date of the U.S. Patent to Lee et al. is
sufficient and the record states the disclosures are
equivalent, we will rely on the content of the U.S. Patent for
this decision.
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