Appeal No. 1999-2418
Application No. 08/737,510
the device being monitored is also being controlled and so the
examiner relies on Abo and points to Figure 3 of that
reference, identifying a reset circuit 15, a monitor circuit
13 and a device 12 that is being controlled as a result of a
disturbance.
The examiner then concludes that it would have been
obvious to modify a method of monitoring computer elements by
incorporating the features from Abo because such a
modification “will provide a system that will take sufficient
steps to protect the device so that such device is never
rendered uncontrollable, thereby improving the performance of
the system” [answer-page 4].
For their part, appellants contend that claim 1 requires
a signal that reflects the present condition of a device
controlled by the computing element; at least one threshold
value; and a comparison of at least one threshold value with
the signal to provide a compare signal which determines the
varied program sequence. Contrasted with this claimed subject
matter, appellants contend that Urban discloses a method of
monitoring computer elements where the memory content is
checked when a reset signal occurs in order to determine which
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