Appeal No. 1997-4129 Application 08/237,988 at a predefined portion of the control program." We examine the disclosure to determine what is meant by these limitations. The specification discloses, in connection with Figure 1, that the master device 101 includes control software 107, 107', 107" for each of the slave devices 103, 103', 103" which is to be downloaded to the slave devices (specification, page 7, line 29 to page 8, line 7). The specification further discloses (page 8, line 26 to page 9, line 9): In accordance with the present invention, the control software 107 is inseparably associated with a portion that contains capability information 109 regarding the functions supported by the corresponding slave device 103. For example, the start of the capability information 109 may be located at a known position within the control software 107 so that the master device 101 is able to locate it, and distinguish it from the rest of the control software 107. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the capability information 109 is readily identifiable because the control software 107 for the slave device 103 is divided into files which are retained in a data base at the master device 101. In this embodiment, it is important that this set of files be treated as a single package within the master device 101. One or more of these files contains only data representing the capability information 109. Figure 1 shows that control software 107 for a slave device 103 has its own capability information 109, and there - 7 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007