Appeal No. 95-3570
Application 08/215,192
persons of ordinary skill. Continental Can Co. v. Monsanto Co.,
948 F.2d 1264, 1268, 20 USPQ2d 1746, 1749 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
In the present case, Albert discloses a “method for
maximizing throughput of a hard disk drive by adaptively seeking
to a data track at which data is to be stored and adaptively
commencing the reading or writing of data in accordance with the
movement of the read/write head in the proximity of the data
track” (Abstract). As summarized by Albert,
[i]n one aspect of the present invention,
throughput is increased by adaptively varying the delay
time between passage of the “on track” threshold and
commencement of reading and writing to select, for each
seek, a minimum delay time, consistent with the
velocity with which the head approaches the destination
track, that will not result in a write fault. In a
second aspect of the invention, terminal portions of
the velocity demand profile are adjusted adaptively to
cause the read/write heads to enter the fine control
regions about the tracks with velocities that will
cause rapid settlement of the heads on a selected
destination track [column 3, lines 6 through 17].
A more detailed summary of Albert’s invention, which is
relied upon by the examiner to support the rejection on appeal,
appears in the reference at column 3, line 18 through column 4,
line 11 (see pages 2 and 3 in the answer).
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