Appeal No. 2000-0545
Application 08/638,339
selected audio/video source to the input receiving circuitry, and a switch controller for
identifying the audio/video source which corresponds to a received channel request and
controls the switch to connect the identified source to the input receiving circuitry.
Specification, page 3, line 25, to page 4, line 1. Multiple sources having overlapping
channel assignments are controlled with user input of a channel. Specification, page 16,
lines 3-11.
Independent claim 1 is representative and is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus for selecting audiovisual signals from two or more sources of such
signals having overlapping channel number assignments and delivering the selected
audiovisual signals to an audio/video input, the apparatus comprising, a memory for
storing a user built channel map comprising a plurality of user channel identifiers that
have each been assigned by the user to correlate to one of the channel numbers of the two
or more sources, a switch for selecting one of the sources for connection to the
audio/video input, and a controller in communication with the memory for controlling the
switch to connect the audio/video input to the source of the channel number correlated to
a requested user channel identifier.
In rejecting Appellant’s claims, the Examiner relies on the following references:
Klosterman 5,550,576 Aug. 27, 1996
Beery 5,045,947 Sep. 3, 1991
Claims 1-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Klosterman
and Beery.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant and Examiner, we refer the reader
to Appellant’s Briefs1 and Examiner’s Answer2 for the respective details thereof.
1 Appellant filed an Appeal Brief on March 19, 1999 and a Reply Brief on July 20, 1999.
2 The Examiner, in response to Appellant’s Brief, mailed an Examiner’s Answer on May 24, 1999.
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