Appeal No. 1999-2418
Application No. 08/737,510
in Urban.
It is true that Abo uses the monitor circuit, 13, to
initiate a reset signal for restarting the computer under
certain conditions and it is true that Urban’s microprocessor
varies its program sequence based on the cause of a particular
reset signal, but we find no reason, from the evidence
provided by these references, to totally redesign Urban’s
circuitry to provide for a varied program sequence based on a
comparison of the present condition of a controlled device
with a threshold value. Even if, somehow, one were to provide
the reset signal at input 12 of Urban’s microprocessor from
the reset circuit 15 of Abo, any “comparison” resulting in the
choice of which program sequence to pursue would still be a
comparison between patterns in memories 6 and 7 of Urban, and
not from a comparison of the present condition of a controlled
device with a threshold value, as required by the instant
claims.
At pages 5-6 of the answer, the examiner contends that a
signal indicative of a condition of monitoring device, 2, of
Urban is compared to a threshold value (though the examiner
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