Appeal 2007-0833
Application 10/280,254
in both a stand alone mode and a docking mode teach Appellants’ file
transfer mode and playback mode?
(2) Have Appellants shown that the Examiner failed to establish that one of
ordinary skill in the art, at the time of the present invention, would have
found that the combined disclosures of Kikinis and Ha and/or Aguilar
render the claimed invention unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)?
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following findings of fact are supported by a preponderance of the
evidence.
The invention
1. Appellants invented an integrated circuit (12) for a multi-function
handheld device (10). (Specification 3.)
2. As depicted in figure 1, when an external host computer (host device
A, B or C) is connected to the handheld device (10) via a host interface (18),
a processing module (20) in the handheld device retrieves a first set of
operational instructions2 for an extended memory mode to transfer files
2 With the multi-function handheld device 10 in the first functional mode,
the integrated circuit 12 facilitates the transfer of data between the host
device A, B, or C and memory 16, which may be non-volatile memory (e.g.,
flash memory, disk memory, SDRAM) and/or volatile memory (e.g.,
DRAM). In this mode, the processing module 30 retrieves a first set of
operational instructions (e.g., a file system algorithm, which is known in the
art) from the memory 16 to coordinate the transfer of data. (Specification 6.)
If it is determined that the first external condition exists, the process
proceeds to step 86 where the integrated circuit retrieves a first set of
operational instructions to facilitate a first functional mode of operation for
the handheld device. The first set of operational instructions may
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