Appeal No. 97-2472 Page 2
Application No. 08/223,770
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to configuring a computer 100. The
invention employs a programmable register, viz., program
register 124, to set the address of an index register 126 and
an associated configuration data register. A user can program
the address to avoid conflicts with peripheral devices that
occupy predetermined addresses in the computer’s input/output
address space 204.
Claim 15, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
15. A method for accessing a plurality of configuration
registers within a power management unit of a computer system
comprising the steps of:
storing a value within a program register that sets an
address location of an index register;
storing an index value within said index register by
executing a write cycle to said address location of said index
register;
enabling a selected one of said plurality of
configuration registers according to said index value; and
writing configuration data into said selected one of said
plurality of configuration registers.
The references relied upon by the patent examiner in
rejecting the appealed claims follow:
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