Appeal No. 95-2784
Application 08/193,634
We note that Appellant's claim 1 recites "a single
active processor for controlling said data defining means and
said data converting means, for receiving feedback information
from each of said feedback devices, and for controlling the
operation of each of said motors to provide coordinated
relative movement between the tool and the workpiece along
each of said multiple axes in accordance with said stored path
description." Furthermore, we note that Appellant discloses
on page 3 of the specification that his invention is to
automate manual machine tools in a manner which adapts them to
be reliable and economical when used for small quantity part
production. Appellant discloses that in order to provide such
an automated machine tool, the invention integrates into a
single active processor all tasks which were heretofore
carried out in a distributed manner. On page 5 of the
specification, Appellant discloses that this is accomplished
by having the single active processor shared among
the many different tasks by a technique of real time multi-
tasking. On page 7, Appellant discloses that the single
active processor is a personal computer which receives
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