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Steven Pearson (6 months ago)
Wow, lots of recent comments. Please note that while this is good, this pilot is not set up to forward these comments to the USPTO. According to P2P, only the materials and annotations under the Prior Art section are forwarded to USPTO. If you know matching prior art, please upload it in that area, and add relevance info for the specific related claims of this application.Todd Gatts (6 months ago)
I think Claim 2 is more wishful thinking than invention. The claim is to update a machine-readable timer in one micro-operation -- and I would go so far as to say such an invention would be a really great thing -- but we are not told how to do that. There should be logic diagrams or circuits showing how a person schooled in the art of setting machine-readable timers would use this invention to update a timer using a single micro-operation.
Saying that single micro-operation would be faster than multiple micro-operations is not an invention. Showing us how to build a single micro-operation timer updater might be.
I don't have any prior art to give you, but the guys that build atomic clocks must have thought about this problem on a far deeper level than I have. The National Institute of Standards and Technology should be able to help.Manuel Perez (7 months ago)
Claim 1 is too broad and generic; almost any timer performs the steps discosed in claim 1, so they make the subject-matter of claim 1 not new.
The compensation of the elapsed time (claim 3) is essential to solve the problem posed by the invention so it must be added to claim 1. PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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