Appeal No. 96-3895
Application 08/288,103
the crankshaft. Our reading of the same section of Marko reveals
only a filtering operation which is required elsewhere in the
claims. Indeed, lines 15-29 of column 5 of Marko provides a
specific example of the filtering that is generally discussed in
lines 9-14 of the same column. We do not see any combining
operation in the portion of Marko cited by the examiner as
disclosing the claimed combining operation.
On page 9 of the answer, the examiner clarified what he
regarded as the combining purportedly disclosed in Marko. In
lines 2-6 of that page, the examiner stated: "These separately
filtered waveforms are then representative of a median filtered
waveform (304; ie. 0combining filtered measurements which
correspond to a given crankangle to produce a combined
measurement0)." In Marko, lines 23-28 of column 5 describe that
all five diagnostic waveforms (crankshaft torque, intake
pressure, exhaust, oil pressure and dynamic oil pressure) are
median filtered "separately to produce five 720-point vectors"
representative of the filtered waveform 304. To the extent that
the examiner has read that language as describing that the
separate waveforms have been combined into a single waveform 304,
that is unreasonable. The description reasonably suggests only
that each of the five waveforms is separately median filtered to
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