Appeal No. 2002-2151
Application No. 09/342,234
lost." The examiner rationalizes that the structure of
controllers in the art almost always contain a microprocessor
with an attached RAM to store the information that the processor
is working on (final rejection, page 3).
After having reviewed both Weiss and Iihoshi, we must agree
with appellants arguments in their brief and reply brief that
there is no teaching or suggestion in either Weiss or Iihoshi,
whether considered individually or collectively, of a vehicle
network system having one master apparatus and a plurality of
slave apparatuses connected to a common transmission path,
wherein each of the slave apparatuses includes a memory which
stores a current apparatus state of the respective slave
apparatuses, a determining device for determining whether the
current apparatus state stored in the memory of the slave
apparatus coincides with the system state in the system state
command received from the master apparatus, and an apparatus
state changing device for making the current apparatus state
stored in the memory of the slave apparatus coincident with the
system state command when the determining device determines that
the current apparatus state of the slave apparatus does not
coincide with the system state in the system state command.
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