Appeal No. 1999-0320
Application No. 08/426,751
reference correspond to the devices of claim 13 because these
elements are devices which are coupled to the microprocessor
10 over the shared bus 11. See Appendix to the brief, claim
13, lines 7 and 8. Acknowledge line 20e indicates that
interface arbiter 21 has accepted or received with no parity
error a request from the microprocessor. Line 20e does not
indicate to microprocessor 10 that the request has been
accepted by a device 12, 13 or 28 to which it has been
directed, whether or not the device is ready to accept the
request, so long as the request storage means is available to
store the request.
Absent evidence, the examiner's alternate position at
page 4 of the answer that "it is well known in systems
designed as in Bouchard to include in some manner a way to
acknowledge that the write was [sic:has] actually taken place"
is not persuasive.
REVERSED
STANLEY M. URYNOWICZ )
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