Appeal No. 1998-1112
Application No. 07/871,768
A personal organizer is illustrated in appellant’s Figure 1.
When the reset switch 9 is turned on, CPU 1 detects a state of a
prescribed terminal, e.g., whether an external device 8 is
connected to the organizer at communications terminal 7. Upon
detection of the state of the terminal, CPU 1 executes a program
stored in ROM 2 for transferring the data in RAM 3 to the external
device 8. As a result, data in RAM 3 can be transferred to the
external device 8 without operation of the keypad 5 and regardless
of the condition of the data in RAM 3 (error free or not). Thus,
data stored in RAM 3 is not lost despite a fault in either keypad
5 or the RAM 3.
The Prior Art
Engstrom discloses a portable data entry and storage device
such as radio 10. In Figure 6, the reference shows a RAM 37 for
storing data from keypad 14. A program enable circuit 41 is
connected to the microcomputer 35 by line 42 for selectively
enabling and inhibiting programming of the RAM 37 via the computer
35. When switch 60 (Figure 5) is actuated, a high voltage is
applied to line 42 to provide a program enable signal to the
computer.
Kelly teaches a ROM 30 for storing a transfer program for
transferring at least part of the data stored in a RAM 32 to an
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