Appeal No. 1998-2864
Application No. 08/338,235
control console. Thus, if the person responsible for monitoring
the control console is away from the console, that person can
still monitor the control console by observing the data on the
portable, remote unit.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A portable monitoring unit for remotely monitoring
measurement data provided at a control console that includes
processing means for processing measurement data related to a
plurality of monitored parameters and for responding to a request
for transmission of measurement data pertaining to a parameter
selected from said plurality of monitored parameters by causing a
radio coupled to the control-console processing means to transmit
said selected-parameter measurement data, the portable unit
comprising
a display device;
a keypad for selecting said parameter as to which
measurement data is to be displayed by the display device and for
enabling said measurement data that is to be displayed to be
requested from the control-console processing means;
a radio for transmitting a said request to the radio that is
coupled to the control console and for receiving said measurement
data transmitted by the radio that is coupled to the control
console; and
a processor coupled to the keypad, the portable-unit radio
and the display device, and adapted for responding to an
operation of the keypad to select a parameter as to which
measurement data requested from the control-console processing
means is to be displayed by causing the portable-unit radio to
transmit to the radio coupled to the control console a request
for transmission of said measurement data selected by operation
of the keypad and for causing the display device to display said
measurement data that is received by the portable-unit radio.
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