Appeal No. 1998-1509
Application No. 07/811,509
The problem, as we view it, is that Launey does not
specify or suggest that such control is effected by the
central processor accessing “a set of addressable control
functions” wherein that set of addressable control functions
is in the operating environment controllers (i.e., the
lighting and music controllers) and arranged so that the
single signal from the central processor causes the plurality
of operating environment controllers to furnish operating
point signals to cause apparatuses to operate in concert, as
claimed. While each of independent claims 1, 12 and 28
describes the invention in a slightly different manner, each
claim requires, in one form or another, the “set of
addressable control functions,” stored in the operating
environment controllers and accessible by a state vector
signal, to be arranged so that a common signal will address
the control functions to cause the apparatuses controlled by
the operating environment controllers to function in an
integrated manner, or in concert.
There is no indication in Launey that the operating
environment controllers in Launey operate in such a manner so
as to include a “set of addressable control functions” in the
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