Appeal No. 2001-0041
Application No. 08/661,899
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a data card which contains data relevant to
servicing and maintenance of an associated machine, and a method of using such a
card. Claim 19 is reproduced below.
19. A machine maintenance data card for recording machine maintenance
events said machine maintenance data card comprising:
machine identification data files identifying at least one specific machine,
said machine identification data files being write protectable, thereby selectively
preventing said machine identification data files from being altered;
maintenance event data files containing a permanent history of
maintenance event information for each said at least one specific machine, said
maintenance event data files being write-once, read-many;
maintenance scheduling files identifying regularly scheduled maintenance for
said machine;
entity identification data files which identify a specific entity and a
relationship of said specific entity to said at least one specific machine, said
entity identification data files being write privileged, thereby permitting selective
writing to said entity identification files; and
maintenance scheduling means for indicating whether regularly scheduled
maintenance has been performed on said at least one specific machine
responsive to said permanent history.
The examiner relies on the following references:
McGrath 4,159,531 Jun. 26, 1979
Rovin 5,049,728 Sep. 17, 1991
Stewart et al. (Stewart) 5,058,044 Oct. 15, 1991
Ryan 5,359,522 Oct. 25, 1994
Eisenmann 5,459,304 Oct. 17, 1995
(filed Sep. 13, 1994)
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