Appeal No. 2000-1363
Application No. 08/848,374
configuration information is created. Also, Harada explains
(column 4, lines 60-65) that HDD stores plural sets of
configuration information, "one set corresponding to the latest
configuration #1, and others corresponding to other system
configurations (#2, #3, etc.) previously formed and set up."
Thus, Harada clearly keeps track of which configuration is the
most recent and which configurations were formed previously.
Harada further teaches (column 5, lines 23-26) that "[e]ach time
the system set up program is run relative to a new system
configuration #j . . . the (setup) program creates associated
system configuration information #j which is stored in NVRAM 7."
Thus, the configuration settings are indexed in order as they are
created, or rather, chronologically. As to whether Harada stores
changes made to the settings, if each setting is saved with the
changes made to the previous setting, then the saving of the
settings is the same as the saving of the changes.
For claim 16, appellant contends (Brief, page 9) that ASUS
and Harada are not combinable and that claim 16 is therefore
allowable. However, nowhere do appellants indicate what claim
limitations are lacking from Harada.
Regarding claim 1, Harada discloses (column 3, lines 40-46)
a computer with a CPU 13, a storage device HDD 9, a non-volatile
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