Appeal No. 2002-1505
Application No. 09/004,254
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a customer product installation/configuration.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. In an electronic image processing apparatus comprising a plurality
of resources including a marking machine, a source of copy sheets, and a
controller, a method of determining the configuration of the plurality of
resources comprising the steps of:
running turn around tests to determine the interconnection of the
resources,
comparing the determined interconnection to a reference
interconnection stored in memory,
displaying the difference of interconnections between the reference
and the determined interconnections,
confirming the difference and loading the determined
interconnection into memory, and
setting up the machine based upon the determined
interconnection.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims is:
Fukui et al. (Fukui) 5,678,135 Oct. 14, 1997
Claims 1-17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Fukui.
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