Appeal No. 1997-4220 Page 2
Application No. 08/394,659
being directed to allowable subject matter and are no longer
before us on appeal.
The invention is directed to the remote management of
memory in a portable information device, such as a wristwatch,
from an external computer.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as
follows:
1. A method for remotely managing a watch memory in a
programmable watch from a computer external to the watch, the
computer having a memory, the method comprising the following
steps:
mapping the watch memory into a portion of the computer
memory to create a virtual watch memory within the computer
memory;
manipulating the computer memory to modify the virtual
watch memory therein; and
downloading the memory modification made in the virtual
watch memory from the computer to the watch memory.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Yokozawa 4,534,012 Aug. 6, 1985
Claims 1, 3 through 7, 9, 11 through 14 and 16 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(e) as anticipated by Yokozawa.
Claims 10 and 18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as
unpatentable over Yokozawa.
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