Appeal 2007-1436
Application 10/390,318
predetermined threshold. This causes a snap action which resembles the feeling of
operating a hardware push-button (Diederiks ¶ 24).
9. Diederiks does not disclose that the relief/actuator is moved in a
direction normal to the top surface by a player’s own power. Rather, in the system
of Diederiks, the piezo electric material of the relief generator moves the top
surface of the relief in response to the player’s pressing of the button.
10. Mattice discloses a gaming device that includes one or more
mechanical switches having switch activation surfaces with changeable,
controllable or programmable indicia, such as characters, icons, logos and the like
(Mattice, col. 3, ll. 34-38).
11. The gaming terminal 112 includes a programmable display switch
module 114, one or more other push-button type or other mechanical switches 116
(which may be either fixed legend or programmable display switches), coin wager
input 118, a bill acceptor 119, a CRT or other computer monitor-type display 122,
and regions 124, 126 for providing various components (Mattice, col. 4, ll. 36-46).
12. In order to coordinate operation of the programmable display switch
module 114 with operation of the game, the programmable display switch is
coupled to a controller board 212 which, in turn, is coupled to a microprocessor
which controls game operation (Mattice, col. 4, ll. 51-55).
13. The connection or interface between the programmable display
switches and the gaming terminal microprocessor is such that the response of the
gaming terminal to activation of a particular switch (i.e., when a player pushes the
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