Appeal No. 1997-2049
Application 08/431,130
system. In an assembly line environment, an off-board
technician terminal 100 interfaces with a vehicle’s on-board
controller 102 and executes programs that prompt a technician
to change vehicle states. For each change of vehicle state,
vehicle operating parameters are sensed and compared against
known good parameters stored in a data base 104 (column 2,
lines 9-17). In a service environment, where more time is
available than at the end of an assembly line, a stand alone
service environment version of the technician terminal
executes enhanced versions of the programs executed in the
assembly line environment to provide detection capabilities of
more vehicle problems (column 2, lines 18-26). Figure 3
illustrates a technician terminal housed in a console 140
mounted on wheels 141 for greater mobility. Console 140
includes monitor 142, a keyboard (not shown), a printer 144,
and various drawers for storing cables and the like (column 5,
lines 2-10).
In rejecting the appealed claims as being unpatentable
over Abe in view of Boscove, the examiner concedes that Abe
does not provide an off-board master controller. The examiner
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