Appeal No. 1997-2769
Application No. 08/138,649
level is displayed. Welch does disclose (column 11, lines 24-
26) that "the display of icons for inactive bedsides can be
suppressed to reduce the number of icons presented to the
user." Thus, Welch does suggest that icons that do not
present significant information should be eliminated.
However, nowhere does Welch teach or suggest eliminating all
but the most severe conditions from the display. In fact, in
Welch's system, to correctly monitor a patient's status, the
nurses would need to see at least all levels of alarm, not
just the most severe.
Further, claim 1 recites that alarms report a failure
from a telecommunication switch and that the display presents
"diagnostic routines executing ... for curing the said failure
of the telecommunications switch." In Welch, alarms report a
failure in the patient. The user controls operations of the
device in response to the alarms. Thus, although the display
is interactive, the user does not cure the failure (i.e., of
the patient) reported by the alarm, the user only adjusts the
device. Furthermore, there is no suggestion in Welch to
report an alarm if a device fails nor to run a diagnostic
routine to cure a failure of the device. Therefore, the
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