Appeal No. 2006-0516
Application No. 10/344,013
minimum thresholds, wherein the thresholds are durations of time.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A microprocessor programmed to (a) calculate an
accumulated watering need for an irrigation zone, and (b) control
irrigation to the zone using an automatically varied frequency of
irrigation and an automatically varied cycle amount, wherein the
cycle amount on watering days falls between a user controllable
maximum threshold, and a user controllable non-zero minimum
threshold, and wherein the user sets both the minimum threshold and
the maximum threshold as a duration of time.
THE REFERENCES
Nielsen et al. (Nielsen) 5,251,153 Oct. 5, 1993
Oliver 5,696,671 Dec. 9, 1997
THE REJECTIONS
The claims stand rejected as follows: claims 1, 6-8 and 10-13
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as anticipated by Nielsen, and claims 2-5
and 9 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as obvious over Nielsen in view of
Oliver.
OPINION
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