Appeal No. 2006-2407
Application No. 09/802,857
would effectively bypass its normal program sequencing to eliminate the program
bug within its normal programming in ROM 3 upon the normal operation of the
plurality comparators 8 in figure 3, the effect of the operation of the system in
figure 3 is to function in a manner analogous to an interrupt as directly taught in the
embodiment in figure 1 of Sagane. In this manner, the functional analogy of
Sagane is consistent with the broad recitation of dependent claims 19 and 20 that
Sagane would effectively receive the plurality of coincidence signals “as” a single
or plural/separate interrupts, since Sagane has the capability to perform both
according to the modified teachings of figure 3 to accommodate plural bugs.
We agree as well with the examiner’s remarks at least at pages 4 through 6 of
the answer that the mere reception of the coincidence signals by the CPU of claim
13 does not require explicitly a direct connection or a direct coupling. We therefore
agree with the examiner’s indirect coupling or indirect connectability arguments in
the answer.
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