Ex parte TRUMMER et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1997-1351                                                         
          Application 08/127,924                                                       

                    at least one control processor system including a                  
               control processor processing time critical tasks such                   
               as real-time tasks; and                                                 
                    at least one additional remainder processor system                 
               which is separate from the control processor system and                 
               includes a remainder processor processing tasks which                   
               are not time critical;                                                  
                    wherein the bus system includes a control bus and                  
               a remainder bus, the control bus being connected to the                 
               control processor system, and the remainder bus being                   
               connected to the remainder processor system; and                        
                    wherein the plurality of peripheral devices are                    
               connected to both the control bus and the remainder                     
               bus.                                                                    

               The Examiner relies on the following prior art:                         
          Matsumoto                           4,065,809     December                   
          27, 1977                                                                     
          Kagawa                        4,495,569      January 22,                     
          1985                                                                         
          De Kelaita et al. (De Kelaita) 4,713,758     December 15,                    
          1987                                                                         
          Sackmann et al. (Sackmann)    5,131,092         July 14,                     
          1992                                                                         
          Petty                         5,222,213         June 22,                     
          1993                                                                         
          (filed April 10,                                                             
          1990)                                                                        

               Claims 19-45 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,                      
          second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to                         
          particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject                      
          matter which applicants regard as their invention.                           
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