Appeal No. 2002-2149
Application No. 08/807,096
detected CD-ROM device, and modifying the configuration file to reflect the CD-ROM
device detected. (Brief at 6-7.)
The rejection relies on column 2, lines 19 through 25 of Khenson for the teaching
of “automatically detecting one of plurality of different compact disc read-only-memory
(CD-ROM) devices....” (Answer at 4.) The rejection points to material at columns 2, 4,
and 5 of the reference for the teaching of causing installation of a driver program
corresponding to the detected CD-ROM device. Further, “detecting the CD-ROM” is
deemed to be found at column 10, lines 14 through 67 of Khenson. (Id.)
We have carefully considered the Khenson reference, with particular emphasis
on the sections pointed out in the Answer. We agree with appellant, for the reasons
advanced in the Brief, that Khenson fails to teach or suggest the features alleged.
The Khenson system includes (Fig. 1) a storage device subsystem 250, having
storage devices that may include a removable media drive 210 and a CD-ROM drive
(not shown). Col. 4, ll. 6-21. The boot sequence (Fig. 2) comprises the BIOS program,
stored in ROM 228 in PC 200 (Fig. 1), testing computer sub-systems and the disk
drives that are indicated in CMOS 226. Col. 8, ll. 38-51. Khenson goes on to describe
a system that uses removable media drive 210 to allow booting from any media or
physical disk drive independent of the CMOS configuration. We find no disclosure or
suggestion of the claimed features argued by appellant in Khenson, nor, for that matter,
in Harding.
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