Appeal No. 1997-4129
Application 08/237,988
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the final rejection of claims 1, 4, 7, and 8. Claims 10 and
11 are indicated to be allowable, and claims 2, 3, 5, 6, and
9 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base
claim.
We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to an apparatus and
method involving a master and slave device in which a
control program is downloaded from the master device to the
slave device. Capability information defining the functions
of the slave device is stored at a predefined portion of the
control program in the master device.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. In a system having a master device coupled to a
slave device by means of an interface, wherein a
function of the master device includes downloading a
control program to the slave device, an apparatus for
providing the master device with capability information
corresponding to the slave device, the apparatus
comprising:
means for reading the capability information from
a predefined portion of the control program; and
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