Appeal No. 2006-0721 Page 2
Application No. 10/113,458
however, the I/O controller's addresses may conflict with those of the other devices. (Id.
at ll. 7-19.)
In contrast, the appellants' invention allocates of a set of addresses to an I/O
processor on a MROMB circuit card. The I/O processor, in turn, allocates a subset of
those addresses to an I/O controller. lf the set of addresses to an I/O processor is
changed, the I/O processor changes the subset of of those addresses allocated to the
I/O controller. (Id., p. 29, ll. 5-10.) An further understanding of the invention can be
achieved by reading the following representative claims.
1 . A method comprising:
if a first device determines that a processor has initiated a
configuration cycle, holding off by the first device the configuration cycle;
after the holding off the configuration cycle, allocating by the
processor a first set of resources to the first device;
allocating, by the first device, a second set of resources to a
second device, the first set of resources comprising the second set of
resources; and
if the first set of resources is changed, changing, by the first device,
the second set of resources.
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