Appeal No. 1998-0613
Application 08/554,998
likely address to be available initially. It is prioritized
based on widely disseminated industry specifications which
specify what addresses some peripheral devices use.”
(Emphasis added.) “This initial address is then assessed to
see if it is unique to that I/O board. If it is not unique,
the next on the list is tried and so on.” (page 12-lines 15-
17). “In some instances this may be enough, however, in order
to accommodate the broad variation in system configurations,
this initial choice needs to be checked....the present
invention accomplishes this through the use of common commands
in several unique manners.” (page 12, lines 27-32, emphasis
added). Finally, at page 15, lines 6-9, the specification
states “Earlier, it was mentioned that the routine used to
assess if the chosen address is unique is an escalating
routine. By this it is meant that the routine next executes
commands which have an even higher probability of discovering
a conflict.” (emphasis added).
Thus, we discern that combinations of addresses (selected
from a list) and commands (e.g., a read command, write
command, etc.) are applied to the I/O board to assess proper
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