Appeal No. 96-4169
Application 08/378,066
ISA computer. Raasch teaches that the peripheral controller
enters a low power mode of
operation while it awaits an interrupt from various devices,
rather than actively polling these devices to determine which
device or devices need service. In column 1, lines 53-58,
Raasch teaches that in laptop computers in which power
consumption is critical, it is important to consider any way
to reduce the power consumption. In column 2, lines 6-14,
Raasch discloses that conventional designs provide that the
peripheral controller continuously polls various devices to
determine if any data transferred from the keyboard is
required. Power is unnecessarily consumed in these active
polling processes. In column 2, lines 50-57, Raasch teaches
that they have solved this unnecessary power consumption by
utilizing memory mapped address decode architecture. In
column 2, line 63, through column 3, line 4, Raasch discloses
that their invention provides an interrupt controller for an
interrupt driven peripheral controller for use in a host
Industrial Standard Architecture compatible computer system,
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