Appeal 2007-1878
Application 09/955,683
1. A computer system comprising:
a plurality of processing resources operable to process data;
a plurality of power supplies associated with the processing resources,
the power supplies operable to supply power to the processing resources;
and
a power management engine associated with the power supplies, the
power management engine operable to adjust the power supplies to optimize
power consumption.
The following reference is relied on by the Examiner:
Fung US 6,859,882 B2 Feb. 22, 2005
(Filed May 18, 2001)
Claims 1 through 25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by Fung.
Rather than repeat the positions of the Appellants and the Examiner,
reference is made to the principal and Reply Briefs for Appellants’ positions,
OPINION
Based on the nature of the prosecution history in this application,
Appellants’ best arguments urging patentability are found in the Reply Brief.
Since we are generally in agreement with them, we will not belabor our
consideration of them.
As in the principal Brief, Appellants major argument urging
patentability of independent claim 1 is the feature at the end of the claim of a
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