Appeal No. 1999-2418
Application No. 08/737,510
12, and a threshold value. The examiner apparently relies on
Urban for the varied program sequence because the
microprocessor, 1, of Urban will either perform a complete
reinitialization of the microprocessor or a shorter program
sequence, depending upon whether the reset signal is produced,
respectively, from the power-on reset circuit, 5, or the
monitoring device, 2. One might also say that the program
sequence followed in Urban is dependent on a comparison
because a comparison is made between a pattern stored in ROM 6
and a pattern present in RAM 7. However, this is not a
comparison between the present condition of a controlled
device and a threshold value, as required by the instant
claims.
Thus, the question remains as to why and/or how the
skilled artisan would modify Urban, in some manner, to take
the controlled device, 12, of Abo, monitor its present
condition (which monitor circuit, 13, may be said to do),
compare that present condition to a threshold value and then
use the result of that comparison, instead of a comparison of
patterns in two memories, to provide a varied program sequence
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