Appeal No. 1998-0905
Application 08/284,061
a subsystem comprising a host central processing unit
(CPU) operating in accordance with at least one application
program and a device handler program, said subsystem further
comprising an adapter subsystem interoperating with said host
CPU and said device;
a realtime signal processing subsystem for performing a
plurality of data transforms comprising a plurality of
realtime signal processing operations; and
at least one realtime application program interface (API)
coupled between the subsystem and the realtime signal
processing subsystem to allow the subsystem to interoperate
with said realtime services.
Examiner relies on the following references:
Chen et al. (Chen) 5,440,740 Aug. 8, 1995
Elnkauf EP 0218859 Apr. 22, 1989
(European Patent)
Tanenbaum, Structured Computer Organization, pp. 10-12, 1984
Silberschatz et al. (Silberschatz), Operating System Concepts,
pg. 489, 1994
Claims 1 through 15 and 17 through 42 are rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Chen.2
Rather than reiterate all arguments of Appellants and
2 The Examiner’s answer initially included Elnkauf as the
basis for a new ground of rejection. However, this rejection
was withdrawn in the supplemental answer mailed August 20,
1997.
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