Appeal No. 95-3872
Application No. 08/171,266
Rather than go through the details of each and every
independent claim and the claims dependent therefrom, we note
that each and every claim requires at least, in one form or
another, the reading of data values and performing concurrent
updates of data values in order to maintain access to each data
value for reading and updating. The claimed method also
requires, in one form or another, the storage of a base value and
incremental updates in order to aggregate the base value and
incremental updates.
There is no disagreement between appellants and the examiner
that Rochkind fails to provide for concurrent updating. The
updates are not concurrent in Rochkind because, as Rochkind
explains at page 367, right-hand column, any attempt to add a
delta, or change, in a module is “locked out,” access being
permitted only for read-only purposes.
The whole purpose of the instant invention is to provide an
improvement over the systems employing “lock out” so as to
provide for the ability to concurrently read and update a
specific data value in different transactions. Yet, the
examiner boldly states that even though Rochkind provides for
locking, the very thing appellants want to avoid, the “reference
is implicit evidence that a system without locking was old in the
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