Appeal No. 1997-3499
Application 08/366,281
(EA12-13) and states (EA13): "The examiner contends that the
prior art suggests this capability by the fact that memory
scrubbing is well known in the art, and utilized in computer
systems to check for soft errors, as admitted by the
appellant, prior to processing of that data, and one of
ordinary skill in the art would have recognized this and
allowed Arnold's and Watson's combined system to utilize such
techniques as well for other advantages known to scrubbing
procedures."
Again, the Examiner fails to point to any suggestion in
the references or the knowledge of those of ordinary skill in
the art for modifying the prior art scrubber means of Ryan to
perform the additional task of providing data for the virus
signature checking operation. It does not even appear that
the Examiner recognizes that a modification of the prior art
scrubber means is necessary. We find no suggestion or
motivation in the references to modify a scrubber means to
read out data for use by other processes than the memory
scrubbing process.
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