Appeal No. 1996-3708
Application 07/474,742
means. On pages 16 and 17 of the appeal brief, Appellants
argue that interpreting the processor of the host as the
claimed decoder means and the LCAs as the claimed matrix
switching means does not meet the claims as these means are
not both in the core. Similarly interpreting the Engels bus
controller as the claimed bus interface means does not meet
the claim as the Engels bus controller is not in a core with
the encoder and switching matrix.
We find that the scope of all of the independent claims,
except claim 18, includes a device having a communications bus
and a central core. The core contains a communication bus
interface, a decoder and a switching matrix. These
limitations are found in exemplary claim 1 “b) a core means
comprising interface means for interfacing with said
communications bus, decoder means for distinguishing between
at least topological and parametric data received by said core
means over said communications bus, and matrix switching
means. . . .” Virtually identical limitations are found in
independent claims 7, 15, 20, 29, 36. Similarly the scope of
claims 17 and 38 is found to include a communications bus and
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