Appeal No. 1999-2095
Application 08/475,624
the on-off status of the machine (i.e., whether the machine is
turned on or off). The on-off status is understood to be
implicitly monitored by the controllers of the APA. In any
case, appellants concede on page 15 of the main brief and then
again on page 3 of the reply brief that “when a prior art
cushioning conversion machine determined that a cutting jam
was occurring, this information was used to alert the operator
and/or de-energize the cutting motor.” Thus, with particular
regard to
dependent claims 9 through 11, the APA is conceded to monitor
jams, which are understood to amount to a relatively common
operational error.
Based on the foregoing analysis, the APA lacks an express
disclosure of the storage and retrieval steps recited in claim
7. Tieden, however, teaches the art to provide an operator
module 37 for transmitting signals pertaining to the
operational status of an operator-attended machine to a
computer 45 (also described as a CPU in column 6, line 45 and
elsewhere) at a remote control room. The transmitted signals
may include a variety of conditions (see column 3, lines 52-
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