Appeal No. 1997-1925
Application No. 08/465,315
states that “[t]he digital control board can write new program and other information into the
EPROM. The control board receives the code from an external source, such as a remote
terminal communicating over a telephone line.” Clearly, this reprogramming would be
placed in the EPROM, rather than the RAM. Upon rebooting, some or all of the
programming would be transferred to the RAM. Again, this transfer is from the EPROM of
the DSP to the RAM of the DSP and not from the ROM of the controller processor to the
RAM of the DSP.
Culley does not remedy this deficiency in Nickel since Culley merely is relied upon
by the examiner to teach the basic booting process of the computer at power up when
ROM programming is transferred to high speed RAM. Culley does not teach or suggest
the transfer from the ROM to the RAM by the controller processor. The examiner relies
upon this transfer as the motivation for “faster overall processing speed for a computer
system” and “to obtain an efficient and faster processing system.” (See answer at page
6.) This line of reasoning similarly would not have motivated the skilled artisan to suggest
the transfer from the ROM to the RAM by the controller processor to remedy the deficiency
in each of the teachings of Nickel and Culley. Therefore, we will
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