Appeal No. 95-3290
Application 08/062,156
which constituted all the claims in the application. An
amendment
after final rejection was filed on November 17, 1994 and was
entered by the examiner. This amendment cancelled claim 6.
Therefore, this appeal is directed to claims 1-5, 7 and 9-15.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for rapidly locating data blocks on a tape. More
particularly, a block map is provided in memory which stores
information with respect to a plurality of entry points on the
tape and the number of logical blocks stored on the tape.
Specific logical data blocks are rapidly accessed on the tape
using the entry point information and the number of the
desired logical block.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for rapidly accessing a desired logical data
block identified by a logical block number on a tape,
comprising steps of:
providing the tape with a plurality of categorizing marks
wherein a plurality of logical blocks are respectively grouped
following the data categorizing marks;
providing a categorizing mark counter which counts the
categorizing marks;
2
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