Appeal 2007-1878
Application 09/955,683
power management engine associated with the power supplies, such that the
power management engine is operable “to adjust the power supplies to
optimize power consumption.” Although we have some strong measure of
agreement with the Examiner’s basic position in the Answer that the power
conservation teachings of Fung directly relate to optimizing power
consumption, we do not agree with the Examiner’s urging at pages 3-5 of
the Answer that the reference teaches any adjustment of the power supplies
themselves as best traversed at page 2 of the Reply Brief. Beginning at
figure 2 of Fung, dual power supplies 56 are shown for each integrated
server system unit in that figure. Dual redundant power supplies are also
illustrated in figure 6 showing two interconnected integrated server system
units A and B. Figure 9 shows two server modules 402, each of which
contains a CPU voltage generator control unit 416 whereas figure 10 shows
a comparable voltage regulator 324 for each ISSU server module 302. A
corresponding voltage regulator is shown at the bottom right of the figure
apparently as an unlabeled element, but characterized in the discussion
bridging column 26 and 27 as voltage regulators 241.
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