Appeal No. 1997-0915
Application 08/369,853
For the reasons stated above, the rejection of claim 1
and its dependent claims 2-5, 7-13, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25,
and 26 is sustained.
Claims 15, 16, and 21
Claim 15 recites that the data acquisition pod includes
means for generating a digital data signal from a plurality of
sensor data. Appellants argue that Policastro and Sasaki only
teach configurations in which the analog-to-digital converter
for converting the signal into a digital form is within the
portable monitor (Br21-22).
The Examiner notes that Sasaki teaches interposing an A/D
sensor relay between the sensor unit 7 and the coupling
section 2 of apparatus 1 and "the data is sent directly to a
host computer, so that more elaborate performance of data
collection and analysis is achieved" (col. 7, lines 29-31).
The Examiner concludes that this would have suggested to one
of ordinary skill in the art "a device separate from the main
monitoring apparatus that receives data signals of patient
physiological parameters from a sensor or a plurality of
sensors, converts the data signals into digital form, and
transmits the digital data elsewhere for further processing
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