Appeal 2007-1464
Application 10/276,285
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellants seek our review under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the Examiner’s final
rejection of claims 9-17, all the claims currently pending in the application. We
have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b) (2002).
SUMMARY OF DECISION
We AFFIRM.
THE INVENTION
Appellants claimed invention is directed to a method of triggering a
component in a distributed safety-related system (Specification 1:2-4). Claim 9,
reproduced below, is representative of the subject matter on appeal.
9. A method of triggering a component in a distributed safety-related
system, the component being triggered by a first triggering module assigned
to the component using a first microcomputer system, the method
comprising:
(a) determining at least one triggering signal for the component by
the first microcomputer system as a function of at least one input signal;
(b) determining at least one logic triggering signal at least partially
by a monitoring arrangement that is independent of the first microcomputer
system, as a function of the at least one input signal, wherein the monitoring
arrangement monitors the first microcomputer system;
(c) comparing the at least one triggering signal with the at least one
logic triggering signal;
(d) determining at least one enabling signal as a function of a result
of the comparison in step (c); and
(e) relaying one of the at least one triggering signal and at least one
signal that depends on the at least one triggering signal to the component
when the at least one enabling signal has a selected value;
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