Appeal No. 2002-1056
Application No. 08/772,888
appealed independent claims requires the recording of image data
having a relatively large amount of data in an outer peripheral
region of a disk “... in order to decrease random storage of
image data having relatively large amounts of data and reduce
access time of said image data....” In addressing this language,
the Examiner offers an interpretation of the claim language “said
image data” as encompassing all of the image data input into the
recording system including image data which would otherwise be
stored totally in the inner regions of a disk. Under this
interpretation, the Examiner asserts (Answer, pages 12 and 13)
that Birk reduces access time since this data, otherwise totally
stored on the slower access time disk inner region, is
partitioned and portions are stored on the faster access time
outer disk regions.
It is our view, however, that no basis exists for the claim
language interpretation articulated in the Examiner’s Answer. We
do not dispute the Examiner’s interpretation of the track pairing
storage technique of Birk which concludes that access time would
be reduced for image data that would otherwise be totally stored
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