Appeal No. 1997-1381
Application 08/188,925
means is the occurance of a paper jam. The Examiner and
Appellant go back and forth regarding the issue of whether
Maniwa compresses and stores print data upon occurance of a
jam (Examiner’s position) or, Maniwa compresses and stores
print data upon receipt from a host computer and uses it to
correct a jam (Appellant’s position). Appellant argues that
since Maniwa compresses and stores data when the data is
received, the claim 4 limitation recited supra is not met by
Maniwa. An example of some of the back and forth positions is
presented below.
The Examiner contends:
Maniwa et al discloses at column 15, lines 55-58,
“image data supplied from the host system is
compressed and is then stored as backup data when
paper jamming occurs”. In addition, Maniwa et al
discloses in column 36, lines 24-27, “As described
previously, in the present printer controller 130,
the backup buffers 191 are formed in the RAM 133 in
order to recover data which would be lost if the
paper is jammed”. Finally, at column 37, line 6+,
Maniwa et al discloses “When the backup is
unnecessary, the process proceeds to step 1036 where
the image data is stored into the temporary memory.
Alternatively when it is detected at step 1032 that
the backup is necessary, it is checked at step 1033
as to whether or not the image data should be
compressed”. (Answer-pages 10 and 11.)
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