Appeal No. 2002-2151
Application No. 09/342,234
mounted electronic devices, information resources and hardware
resources can be used in common by two or more of the electronic
devices, and a given data item can be transmitted among the
vehicle-mounted electronic devices with improved network
transparency. The distributed operating system also improves the
reliability of the network system and provides the system with a
high level of scalability. Thus, Iihoshi makes it possible to
build up virtual distributed shared memories when there is no
physical shared memory provided (see, col. 2, lines 35-56).
Although the system of Iihoshi is clearly not a network system
having a master/slave relationship, the examiner urges that this
patent discloses a memory (11, 21, 31, 41) "which stores a
current apparatus state of the respective slave apparatuses"
(final rejection, page 2).
In the rejection of claims 1 through 10 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a), the examiner contends that it would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants'
invention to use the memory of Iihoshi in the invention of Weiss
"because there would have to be some type of storage for the
message [from the process computer (24) of Weiss] otherwise the
message would be transmitted and then just disappear and be
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