Appeal No. 2001-2030
Application No. 08/874,046
expressly disclose the use of an identifier which collectively
identifies a group of components but the examiner contends that
Bertsch “implies” such claim limitations wherein different groups
of the components use different formats for the data portion by
teaching that his “CEBUS message is automatically translated to a
signal format that is appropriate for the capabilities of the
appliance,” citing column 4, lines 42-44, of Bertsch at page 4 of
the answer.
Thus, the examiner finds that Bertsch implies that different
appliances have different formats.
The examiner turns to Guidette for the teaching of using an
identifier which collectively identifies a group of components to
enable communication between components and to enable the control
of a plurality of components in a home bus system, concluding
that it would have been “obvious...to have utilized the group
identifying concept of Guidette in the Bertsch system to provide
simple control of a plurality of components together” [answer-
page 4].
With regard to claim 6, the examiner argues that Bertsch
explicitly or implicitly meets the claim limitation of “the
messages include data portions, and wherein different groups of
the components use different formats for the data portions” by
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