Appeal No. 2002-1784
Application No. 09/583,333 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention relates to a remote start system for a
vehicle having a data communications bus. An understanding of
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A remote start control system for a vehicle comprising a
data communications bus, the remote start control system
comprising:
at least one vehicle device associate with starting an
engine of the vehicle;
a remote start transmitter;
a receiver at the vehicle for receiving signals from said
remote start transmitter; and
a vehicle remote start controller connected to the data
communications bus for communicating with said at least one
vehicle device associated with starting the engine of the
vehicle, said vehicle remote start controller also connected to
said receiver and being responsive to signals from said remote
start transmitter.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Drew 5,612,578 Mar. 18, 1997
(filed Oct. 31, 1993)
Dery et al. (Dery) 5,673,017 Sep. 30, 1997
(eff. filed Sep. 3, 1993)
Di Croce 5,838,255 Nov. 17, 1998
(filed Apr. 19, 1996)
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