Patent number 369365 has been granted to O2MICRO, INC. that is titled as Intelligent bus address self configuration in multi-module system. During the patent prosecution, the patent examiner objected to this patent under section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the mere reference to the use of a ‘procedure’, ‘method’ or ‘algorithm’ in an apparatus having various hardware elements, networks, components and the like, that determines the technical effect of the invention as a whole, does not make the claimed invention an algorithm or computer program per se as contemplated in section 3(k) of the Patents Act. This patent falls under the category of computer science. Overall, this patent covers an apparatus having one bus port to couple the first module to a bus; a first configuration port and second configuration port for receiving the indication whether the address assignment has been enabled or disabled for the first module and the second module respectively, as inputs.