Appeal No. 2002-1830
Application No. 09/583,257
The disclosed invention relates to a controller in a vehicle
control system that stores a set of device codes for a plurality of
different vehicles.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads
as follows:
1. A control system for a vehicle comprising a data
communications bus and at least one vehicle device connected
thereto, the control system comprising:
a transmitter and a receiver for receiving signals from said
transmitter; and
a multi-vehicle compatible controller cooperating with said
transmitter and said receiver and for storing a set of device codes
for a given vehicle device for a plurality of different vehicles,
for reading a device code from the data communications bus, and for
determining a match between a read device code and the stored
device codes to thereby provide compatibility with a plurality of
different vehicles.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Grossheim et al. (Grossheim) 4,794,368 Dec. 27, 1988
Dery et al. (Dery) 5,673,017 Sept. 30, 1997
Simms et al. (Simms) 5,808,564 Sept. 15, 1998
Claims 1 through 8, 11, 16 through 26, 32 through 38 and 40
through 44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Dery.
Claims 12, 14 and 27 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Dery in view of Simms.
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