Appeal No. 2007-0400
Application 10/788,054
We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. §§ 6(b) and 134(a). We affirm.
APPELLANTS’ INVENTION
Appellant’s invention is an optical data transmission system that employs at
least one redundant optical emitter which serves as a spare in the event of failure of
another optical emitter. The claims are directed to the embodiment shown in
Figure 4, which includes three optical emitters 40, 50, and 60 (two of which are
spares) and respective monitor elements 300, 310, and 320 (part of monitor device
20).
Control module 70 in control device 10 may be configured to initially cause
switching device 80 to apply incoming data signals D to emission element 40
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