Appeal No. 1997-3240
Application 08/176,940
simultaneous storing of code words for different encoding
levels. McEntee, in col. 4, lines 13 through 27 and claim 1,
teaches a method and an apparatus for cell by cell copying of
the active memory objects into a new memory area and updating
the pointers to that object. However, we fail to find any
teachings in McEntee that shows or leads us to Appellant’s
claimed means and method for storing the code words for a
plurality of encoding levels or their equivalent.
Additionally, McEntee merely transfers the objects by exact
copying of each cell but is completely silent with regard to
the means and the method for simultaneous storing of a
specified code word through a range of registers at a
plurality of addresses for different encoding levels.
Therefore, the limitation of “means for entering
simultaneously into the code memory at a plurality of
addresses a code word for each of a plurality of encoding
levels,” as recited in Appellant’s claim 1, is absent in
McEntee’s disclosure. We note that the other independent
claim 8 recites a process for simultaneous entering of code
words similar to claim 1. Accordingly, we reverse the
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