Appeal No. 1997-1351
Application 08/127,924
The Examiner's reasoning is not understood. The
display 22 is not connected via the SMC channel or the SCP
channel to the RISC-based processor bus 208. "Channel 200
and time-share portions of elements 201-208 together make up
DMA serial controller 3 [of figure 1]." (Col. 3,
lines 46-48.) Display 22 only communicates via time-shared
SCC channel 200.
Nevertheless, the term "connected to" in the phrase
"the plurality of peripheral devices are connected to both
the control bus and the remainder bus" is very broad and
does not require a "separate" or "independent" connection
between a peripheral device and each of the two buses, nor
does it require a "direct" connection to the bus. The term
"connected to" does not preclude the presence of intervening
elements; e.g., display 22 is "connected to" RISC-based
processor bus 208 even though it is connected via the
intervening elements of interface 18, multiplexing
interface 201, and channel 200. Therefore, the limitation
of "the plurality of peripheral devices are connected to
both the control bus and the remainder bus" is broad enough
to include the arrangement in Petty where the display is
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