Appeal No. 1997-3837
Application No. 08/269,251
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a system for early arbitration for access to the
system bus prior to the system determining whether access to the bus in required. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which
is reproduced below.
1. A commander module, coupled to a system bus including system bus control
request signals wherein said commander module is associated with one of said system
bus control request signals, comprising:
means for determining whether control of said system bus is required; and
means for requesting control of said system bus, prior to said determining means
determining whether such control is required, by asserting said associated system bus
control request signal.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Irwin 4,703,420 Oct. 27, 1987
Schanin et al. (Schanin) 5,067,071 Nov. 19, 1991
Moyer et al. (Moyer) 5,416,910 May 16, 1995
( Eff. filing date Mar. 4, 1992)
Claims 1-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Schanin. Claims 13-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Moyer in view of Irwin.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and the
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
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