Appeal No. 95-3517
Application 08/203,729
The mechanism that operates on these virtual addresses
and translates them into actual locations in the
physical hierarchy is usually implemented by a
combination of hardware and software components.
The Examiners argues that the "combination of hardware and
software" constitutes the secondary storage controller as
claimed.
On pages 3-6 of the brief, Appellant argues that Hamacher
fails to disclose a secondary memory controller to extend the
effective memory space of system RAM as recited in Appellant's
claims and thereby does not anticipate Appellant's claims 1, 5,
9, 13 and 17. In particular, Appellant points out that the cited
sections of Hamacher are completely devoid of any teaching of an
adaptor or controller as recited in Appellant's claims.
We note that Appellant's claims each recite the claim
limitation directed to a secondary memory controller to extend
the effective memory space of RAM. The Examiner is requesting us
to speculate that Hamacher's statement referring to a mechanism
that operates to translate virtual addresses by a combination of
hardware and software components teaches a mechanism that would
require the apparatus as claimed by Appellant. We do not wish to
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