Appeal No. 1999-2555
Application No. 08/503,625
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. An avionics simulator for training in the use and
operation of an aircraft, comprising:
an operational flight program processor for executing an
Operational Flight Program of a specific avionic device on a
machine instruction basis and configured of hardware
substantially identical to that of said specific avionic
device;
a control central processing unit;
a programmable input/output emulator;
a bus interconnecting said operational flight program
processor, control central processing unit, and programmable
input/output emulator, wherein said operational flight program
processor issues commands to said programmable input/output
emulator, which commands are read by said control central
processing unit which formulates responses to such commands,
which responses are passed across said bus to said operational
flight program processor; and
wherein said control central processing unit and said
programmable input/output emulator do not duplicate hardware
of the aircraft, but are software programmable to emulate
avionics devices of the aircraft.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Berner et al. (Berner) 5,260,874 Nov. 09,
1993
(filed Dec. 23, 1992)
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