Appeal No. 1998-3359
Application 08/572,347
teach the discrete time periods established for the execution
of motor control functions, but argue that DiGiulio does not
allow sufficient time to allow completion of the machine
control algorithms,but instead uses an elaborate priority
system to reallocate time from lower priority functions to
higher priority functions in the event that a higher priority
function requires additional processing time to execute to
completion.
On page 6 of the answer, the Examiner argues that
DiGiulio does teach completion of the control algorithms. The
Examiner points us to column 6, line 60, to column 7, line 68.
Upon our careful review of DiGiulio, we find that
DiGiulio teaches in column 6, lines 60-63, that the motor
controller 50 performs a control cycle every 1 millisecond as
shown in figure 5. In column 6, lines 65-67, DiGiulio teaches
each control cycle is divided into discrete time periods T
during which control functions are performed as noted in table
1 illustrated in figure 5. In column 7, lines 45-46, DiGiulio
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