Appeal No. 2002-2151
Application No. 09/342,234
master apparatus are connected to a common transmission path, and
the master sends commands through the transmission path to
control states of the slave apparatuses. More particularly,
appellants' system and method reduces or eliminates the burden on
the master apparatus to monitor slave apparatuses for an abnormal
state and then restore a slave apparatus from an abnormal state
if such occurs, by having the master apparatus only periodically
notify the slave apparatuses of the system state command and each
of the slave apparatuses themselves provided with means whereby
each slave apparatus recognizes, in response to the system state
command, an abnormal state and then conducts by itself processing
for restoring from an abnormal state. Independent claims 1 and 7
are representative of the subject matter on appeal, and a copy of
those claims can be found in the Appendix to appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claim are:
Weiss 6,038,500 Mar. 14, 2000
Iihoshi et al. (Iihoshi) 6,052,632 Apr. 18, 2000
Claims 1 through 10 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Weiss in view of Iihoshi.
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