Appeal No. 97-2657
Application 08/359,286
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 16, all of the claims pending in the
present application.
The invention relates to employing timers to prop-
erly allocate bus access.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A bus access arbitration system, comprising:
a bus;
a plurality of devices, at least one of the plural-
ity of devices being associated with a corresponding timer,
the timer being reset to zero each time the at least one
device accesses the bus, such that the timer has a value
indicating an elapsed time since the at least one device last
accessed the bus; and
an arbiter connecting the devices to the bus, the
arbiter granting the devices access to the bus based on the
value of the timer.
The Examiner relies on the following reference:
Watanabe 5,499,345 Mar. 12, 1996
(effective filing date Oct. 2, 1992)
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