Appeal No. 2000-1513
Application No. 08/829,088
canceled claim 21, and a claim 27, dependent on a canceled claim
26.
We also note that, in accordance with appellants’ grouping
of the claims at page 7 of the brief, all claims will stand or
fall together. Accordingly, we limit our discussion to
independent claim 1.
It is the examiner’s position that Hausauer discloses a
method for isolating a fault condition on a bus of a computer
system, including an I/O subsystem formed by a plurality of I/O
devices communicating via a bus, referring to Figure 1 and column
4, lines 30-62 of the reference. The examiner also indicates
that the claimed step of “categorizing, in a recursive manner,
the I/O subsystem” is disclosed by Hausauer at Figure 4 and
column 9, lines 17-55. Finally, the examiner contends that
“isolating a source of an error condition within the I/O
subsystem” may be found at column 7, line 46-column 8, line 6, of
Hausauer.
An anticipatory reference is one which describes all of the
elements of the claimed invention so as to have placed a person
of ordinary skill in the art in possession thereof. In re Spada,
911 F.2d 705, 708, 15 USPQ2d 1655, 1657 (Fed. Cir. 1990).
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