Appeal 2007-1604
Application 09/966,064
Nakagiri, there would be no need to couple the external peripheral device to
transfer the drivers in Alcorn. In such a case, the drivers would already be
stored in Alcorn’s system (Answer 6-7).
Second, Appellants argue that a ROM device with a particular BIOS
is generally destined for a particular computer. Therefore, Appellants
contend, the skilled artisan would not think to put BIOS programs for a
particular machine on the same ROM device with hardware drivers for
multiple different operating systems (Br. 16). The Examiner argues that
storing hardware drivers for multiple different operating systems in the
system ROM would reduce operating system installation time. According to
the Examiner, the user may only need to update the BIOS, but not need to
spend additional time to install additional drivers for different operating
systems (Answer 7).
We will sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claim 10. Alcorn
discloses a microprocessor-based electronic casino gaming system with,
among other things, a system boot ROM 14 that provides the initialization
software required when power is initially applied (Alcorn, col. 6, ll. 24-29;
Fig. 1). As shown in Figure 2, ROM 14 comprises two separate ROM
elements: (1) ROM 29 which contains, among other things, the system
initialization or boot code, and (2) ROM 30 which includes the operating
system program and system drivers (Alcorn, col. 7, ll. 18-32; Fig. 2). In
another embodiment, Alcorn discloses that ROM 14 comprises (1) ROM 50
(containing the BIOS software), and (2) ROM 52 (containing, among other
things, the boot strap code, operating system code, and operating system
drivers) (Alcorn, col. 9, ll. 38-55; Fig. 6).
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