Appeal 2007-1878
Application 09/955,683
In agreeing with Appellants’ views that Fung does not adjust power
supplies, any adjustments appear to be made according to the teachings and
showing of these figures relating to controlling the voltage regulators and
their respective power distribution to their corresponding CPUs rather than
to adjusting the power supplies themselves. Moreover, to the extent the
Examiner appears to rely upon corresponding teachings at columns 28
through 30 of Fung as relating to the ability of the power management
module to control the power supplies, there is no indication in Fung, as
argued in the paragraph bridging pages 2 and 3 of the Reply Brief, that the
power supplies themselves are adjusted in accordance with the requirements
at the end of independent claim 1 on appeal. Therefore, we do not sustain
the rejection of independent claim 1 and its respective dependent claims 2
through 11.
Correspondingly, we also do not sustain the rejection of independent
claim 12 which requires adjusting the number of operating power supplies to
satisfy a change in processing resources, which in turn requires a change in
demand. Like Appellants’ discussion in the Reply Brief at pages 3 and 4,
we do not agree with the Examiner’s urging at page 5 of the Answer that the
noted teachings at the middle of column 6 of Fung teach the adjustment of a
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