Appeal No. 2004-1680
Application No. 09/122,741
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to an information processing apparatus, mode
control method and storage medium. An understanding of the invention can be derived
from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. An information processing apparatus adapted to be coupled
to a printer, said information processing apparatus having a power save
mode in which a power of the information processing apparatus is ON but
a power consumption thereof is reduced, and comprising:
a spool which stores print data to be transferred to the printer; and
a controller which monitors a state of said spool and when
the state becomes a state where a transition of said information
processing apparatus to the power save mode is to be made, the
transition of said information processing apparatus to the power
save mode is prohibited if the print data is stored in said spool.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Pearce et al. (Pearce) 5,617,572 Apr. 1, 1997
Maeda JP-09044324 Feb. 14, 1997
(Japanese patent)
Claims 1-26 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Maeda in view of Pearce.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the examiner and
appellants regarding the above-noted rejections, we make reference to the examiner's
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