Appeal No. 2000-0402
Application 08/720,399
workstation coupled to the production staging area, the release workstation operated by a
release user, the release user being able to determine an effective date of the approved control
software, the release workstation being adapted to copy the approved control software from
the pre-production repository to a production repository located at the production staging area
on the effective date; a production workstation coupled to the production staging area for
receiving the order for a production machine, determining the subset of electronic control
modules located on the ordered production machine, and retrieving the production control
software corresponding to the subset of electronic control modules located on the ordered
production machine, the production workstation being coupled to the ordered production
machine and adapted to download the production control software from the production staging
area to the subset of electronic control modules located on the ordered production machine and
a production staging area coupled to the product engineering workstation for receiving and
storing approved production control software and for receiving an order for a production
machine in a build schedule staging area.
The examiner further identifies Moore-McKee as teaching a method of operating a
computer to automatically produce control software for an information manager on earth moving
machines.
Finally, the examiner concludes that it would have been obvious to modify the teachings
of Oba with the teachings of Beasley and Moore-McKee because this modification would
provide Oba’s teaching with the enhanced capability of processing a product efficiently while
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