Appeal No. 96-0950
Application No. 07/727,932
through column 10, line 27. For example, the occupation bus is
in a 1 state during an exchange of data between a sending
processor and a receiving processor and is in the 0 state when
the data bus is at rest. Column 4, line 65 through column 5,
line 2.
Katzman discloses in Figure 1 a centralized controller 37
for arbitrating requests for bus access among competing
processors 33. The centralized controller 37 includes processor
select logic 85 (Figure 3) which determines the priority of data
transfers. Controller 37 has a separate select line 63 (Figure
2) to each processor. Controller 37 awards bus access to one
processor by sending a signal over that processor’s individual
select line. Column 81, lines 16 through 68.
DISCUSSION
Claims 1-6 and 11-13
Claims 1-6 and 11-13 recite a data gathering system having
transfer control means for (1) checking a number of data on a
data bus and (2) determining an order of transfer by the
respective transmitting processor of said plurality of
transmitting processors.
The examiner states that Quinquis has means for performing
function (1) and that it would have been obvious to incorporate
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