Appeal No. 96-2444
Application 08/360,194
mentioned in the statement of the rejection to give an
applicant notice of the factual basis of the rejection. Since
appellants address the teachings of the admitted prior art, we
will also address it.
Carter discloses in the Background of the Invention that
it was known in the prior art of power management on portable
computers to provide a switch which the user could press to
place the computer in a standby mode (col. 1, lines 50-57).
Although it is not stated, presumably the computer was
returned to the normal mode using the same switch. Carter
further discloses that it was known to blank the display and
shut down peripherals such as the hard disk unit and some
interface circuitry after a period of inactivity. Thus,
Carter discloses that it was known to switch to a standby mode
(as defined in appellants' claims) from a normal mode either
by a manual switch or automatically after a period of
inactivity.
Carter's invention is directed to a power management
system that shuts down the system automatically (it is not
dependent on an action by the user) after a given inactivity
period, thus entering a standby mode (also called an inactive
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