Appeal No. 1999-0246
Application 08/641,629
FIRMLOC Main Utility Menu. Figure 13d is an example of a User
Access Datalog Window. Figure 13e is an example of a User
Access Denied Datalog Window.
Finally, Figure 13f is a FIRMLOC Setup Options Menu, including
User Display Options, Hardware IRQ Options, and Return to
FIRMLOC Main Utility Menu.
The examiner, after characterizing Heptig as teaching a
"physical key" 14 and menus that are presented to a user to
perform various administrative functions, argues (Answer at 8-
9): It would have been obvious to one of ordinary
skill in the art to modify Smitt to provide a
physical key having three modes and menu
controls because one of ordinary skill would
have wanted some easy to operate mechanism to
allow a remote user to change the operational
modes of the computer system. Motivation for
this modification is provided by the combination
as a whole. When viewed as such, one of
ordinary skill would have added a remote
physical key and administrative menus to Smitt
because that would enable Smitt's system to be
securely and easily controlled from a remote
terminal 23. Motivation for this
modification would have been obvious because the
menus of Heptig provide an easier interface than the
command line controls found in Smitt on column 8,
lines 40-45, 64-68 for example. This has the stated
benefit of allowing a remote user control over the
setting of all administrative functions and would
have allowed one to set the normal, service and
secure modes of operation from the remote location.
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