Appeal No. 97-0707
Application No. 08/001,474
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 6 and 8 through 23. In an Amendment After Final (paper 2
number 7), claims 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21 and 23 were
amended, and claims 2 through 4, 14, 18, 19 and 22 were canceled.
Accordingly, claims 1, 5, 6, 8 through 13, 15 through 17, 20, 21
and 23 remain before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and device for
storing and recalling address associative information in an
address space.
Claims 1 and 17 are illustrative of the claimed invention,
and they read as follows:
1. A device for storing and recalling information,
comprising:
an address space, defined by a plurality of memory chips,
for holding address associative information;
a plurality of key addresses within said address space;
a radius of capture corresponding to each key address, said
key addresses partitioning said address space such that a
hypersphere defined by said radius of capture of each key address
does not overlap any other hypersphere within each memory chip in
order to allow information within said address space to be
associated with at most one key address;
a dedicated address decoder corresponding to each key
address for receiving an address over an address signal path in
2As indicated in the Advisory Action (paper number 8), the
amendment had the effect of overcoming the rejection of claim 9
under the fourth paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112.
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