Ex parte WAKELAND et al. - Page 2




          Appeal No. 96-4169                                                          
          Application 08/378,066                                                      



          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       





                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
                    This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-                
          tion of claims 1 through 19, 24 and 25, all of the claims                   
          pending in the present application.  Claims 20 through 23 are               
          withdrawn from consideration.                                               
                    The invention relates to a dual path computer con-                
          trol system for regulating the operation of a peripheral                    
          device associated with a computer system.  Appellants disclose              
          on page 8 of the specification that Figure 1 is a block dia-                
          gram of a computer system having a dual path control system                 
          constructed   in accordance with the teachings of the present               
          invention.  Furthermore, Appellants disclose that Figure 2 is               
          a schematic diagram illustrating the interconnections between               
          the host computer and the independent control circuit of                    
          Figure 1 as well as the interconnections between the compo-                 
          nents of the independent control circuit.  On page 9 of the                 


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