Appeal No. 1995-3903 Page 16
Application No. 08/062,737
initiation value for the initiation of each said processes as
a function of said predicted present sector period” and
“generating an initiation signal from said initiation value
for each said processes to initiate said processes after the
occurrence of said sector mark in said present sector period.”
Giving the claim its broadest reasonable interpretation, it
recites generating a value and, in response to the value,
generating a signal to start tasks.
The appellants erred in reading the limitation of a
different count value for each task from their specification
into the claim. Comparison of the Moon’s disclosure to the
claim language evidences that the reference would have
suggested the claimed generating of a value and, in response
to the value, generating a signal to start tasks. As
aforementioned, Moon’s Main Time and POS_ISR tasks would have
suggested the claimed tasks. The reference’s use of the up
counter and down counter to generate counts would have
suggested the claimed generating of a value. Moon’s assertion
of the WEDGE interrupt, when the down counter reaches a
certain count, to initiate POS_ISR and its initiation of Main
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