Appeal No. 1997-4224
Application No. 08/474,866
identified the two computers in Schreiber as the existing
video board and the graphics board in Figure 3. Assuming,
arguendo, that the examiner’s interpretation is reasonable
(the examiner has never explained why the video board and
graphics board are considered to be “computers”), the instant
independent claims further require that each computer has an
address bus. Yet, the examiner only identifies, at column 12,
line 40, and column 5, line 63, of Schreiber, a graphic
processor having address and data buses. It is unclear how
this translates into an address bus for each of the video
board and the graphics board identified by the examiner as
being two computers. Thus, it is unclear what, in Schreiber,
the examiner relies on for the teaching or suggestion of two
separate address buses.
Further, the instant independent claims call for an
address translator having address inputs for addresses
supplied by the first computer and outputs for translated
addresses to the address bus of the second computer. While
Schreiber discloses an address translator, at 420 in Figure 4,
it is unclear how this address translator meets the claim
language without the required two address buses. Moreover,
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