Appeal No. 1997-1351
Application 08/127,924
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 19-45. The amendment (Paper
No. 15) received January 17, 1996, has not been entered as
noted in the Advisory Action (Paper No. 17).
We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a central unit
for a process control system having at least one control
processor system with a control processor for the processing
of real-time tasks as well as at least one additional
remainder processor system which is separate from the
control processor system and has a remainder processor for
processing tasks which are not time-critical. By uncoupling
the processor systems, accesses of the processor systems to
the peripheral units do not affect each other and the alarm-
reaction time is low and reproducible.
Claim 19 is reproduced below.
19. A process control system comprising a central unit
and a plurality of peripheral devices which are
connected to the central unit via a bus system, said
central unit comprising:
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