Appeal 2007-1844
Application 10/012,200
The Invention
1. As depicted in Figure 1, Appellants invented a vehicle multimedia
system (10) having a plurality of multimedia units (12-21) that communicate
over a ring shaped network (24) via linkage sections (26-35). (Specification
3).
2. As depicted in Figure 2, at least one of the multimedia units includes a
plurality of transceiver units (TC) and a network controller (40) for
controlling the communication between the transceivers Id.
The Prior Art Relied Upon
3. As depicted in Figure 1, Marakami teaches a supervisory system
having a plurality of nodes (N1-N4), each node having a controller (NC) and
at least one multimedia unit that communicates another multimedia
unit
over a ring-shaped network (2) via linkage sections (3a-3d). (Col. 7, ll. 1-
24).
4. Marakami indicates that the multimedia units include, for example, a
cellular phone, a facsimile, or a digital TV, etc. (Col. 7, ll. 25-36).
5. As depicted in Figure 2, Brown teaches that each node includes a
frame reception unit (11) and a frame transmission unit (29). (Col. 7, l. 66-
col. 8, l. 14).
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