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
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