Appeal No. 2002-2151
Application No. 09/342,234
Thus, even if we assume that each of the controllers (50-64) of
Weiss includes a memory, or that it would have been obvious to
one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of appellants'
invention to modify the controllers of Weiss to have a memory, we
fail to find in either of the applied patents any teaching or
suggestion as to exactly what information would be stored in such
memory, or of a "determining device" like that required in claim
1 on appeal for causing each of the slave apparatuses to
determine 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
(claim 7).
It also follows from the deficiencies noted above that
neither Weiss nor Iihoshi provides any teaching or suggestion of
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," as set forth in claim 1 and in similar language
in method claim 7.
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