Appeal No. 2000-1363
Application No. 08/848,374
Therefore, we will sustain the rejection of claims 5 and 13 and
of the claims grouped therewith, claims 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 14.
Regarding claim 16, Harada teaches (column 6, lines 57-63)
that when no stored configuration information matches the
detected configuration settings, user participation is required
to setup a "new" system configuration. Although Harada is not
explicit about how the new configuration is determined, the
teaching of user participation at least suggests a query to the
user for the new configuration setting. Further, as explained
supra, Harada stores each configuration when a new system
configuration is set up. Therefore, we will sustain the
rejection of claim 16 and claim 21 grouped therewith.
As to claim 8, appellants contend that Harada does not
mention querying whether configuration settings should be reset
to the changes most recently made, since the changes most
recently made are not stored in Harada. However, we have found
that Harada does store the most recently made changes.
Nonetheless, Harada teaches changing the configuration setting to
the changes most recently made upon a match and searches previous
configuration settings when there is a mismatch of the
configuration setting with the changes most recently made.
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